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שׁוּב

shuvto return: returnHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb1,057 occurrences38 books950 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
Traditional renderings: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) × again, (cause to) answer ( again), × in any case (wise), × at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, × certainly, come again (back), × consider, continually, convert, deliver (again), deny, draw back, fetch home again, × fro, get (oneself) (back) again, × give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, × needs, be past, × pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, × surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders שׁוּב:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,057 total
  1. Isaiah 38:8וַתָּ֤שָׁב · went back
    I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.
  2. Isaiah 41:28וְיָשִׁ֥יבוּ · they have nothing to say
    When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.
  3. Isaiah 42:22הָשַֽׁב׃ · Send them back
    But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
  4. Isaiah 43:13יְשִׁיבֶֽנָּה׃ס · can reverse it
    Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
  5. Isaiah 44:19יָשִׁ֣יב · considers
    And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
  6. Isaiah 44:22שׁוּבָ֥ה · Return
    I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
  7. Isaiah 44:25מֵשִׁ֧יב · who confounds
    …who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
  8. Isaiah 45:23יָשׁ֑וּב · be revoked
    By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.
  9. Isaiah 46:8הָשִׁ֥יבוּ · take
    Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!
  10. Isaiah 47:10שׁוֹבְבָ֑תֶךְ · led you astray
    You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
  11. Isaiah 49:5לְשׁוֹבֵ֤ב · back
    And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, that Israel might be gathered to Him—for I am honored in the sight of the LORD, and My God is My strength—
  12. Isaiah 49:6לְהָשִׁ֑יב · and to restore
    He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
  13. Isaiah 51:11יְשׁוּב֗וּן · will return
    So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
  14. Isaiah 52:8בְּשׁ֥וּב · returns
    Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they shout for joy. For every eye will see when the LORD returns to Zion.
  15. Isaiah 55:7וְיָשֹׁ֤ב · let him return
    Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
  16. Isaiah 55:10יָשׁ֔וּב · return
    For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
  17. Isaiah 55:11יָשׁ֥וּב · return
    …so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
  18. Isaiah 58:12מְשֹׁבֵ֥ב · Restorer
    Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.
  19. Isaiah 58:13תָּשִׁ֤יב · you turn
    If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,
  20. Isaiah 59:20וּלְשָׁבֵ֥י · who turn
    “The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the LORD.
  21. Isaiah 63:17שׁ֚וּב · Return
    Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
  22. Isaiah 66:15לְהָשִׁ֤יב · to execute
    For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.
  23. Jeremiah 2:24יְשִׁיבֶ֑נָּה · can restrain her passion
    …a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
  24. Jeremiah 2:35שָׁ֥ב · will turn
    …you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
  25. Jeremiah 3:1הֲיָשׁ֤וּב · return; וְשׁ֥וֹב · and you would return
    “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
  26. Jeremiah 3:7תָּשׁ֖וּב · she would return; שָׁ֑בָה · return
    I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
  27. Jeremiah 3:10שָׁ֨בָה · return
    Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
  28. Jeremiah 3:12שׁ֣וּבָה · Return
    Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
  29. Jeremiah 3:14שׁ֣וּבוּ · Return
    “Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
  30. Jeremiah 3:19תָשׁוּבוּ׃ · turn away
    Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
  31. Jeremiah 3:22שׁ֚וּבוּ · Return
    “Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
  32. Jeremiah 4:1תָּשׁ֨וּב · you will return; תָּשׁ֑וּב · return
    “If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,
  33. Jeremiah 4:8שָׁ֛ב · turned away
    So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”
  34. Jeremiah 4:28אָשׁ֥וּב · or turn back
    Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”
  35. Jeremiah 5:3לָשֽׁוּב׃ · to repent
    O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
  36. Jeremiah 6:9הָשֵׁב֙ · once more
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”
  37. Jeremiah 8:4יָשׁ֖וּב · Does one turn away; יָשֽׁוּב׃ · return
    So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?
  38. Jeremiah 8:5שׁוֹבְבָ֜ה · turned away; לָשֽׁוּב׃ · to return
    Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
  39. Jeremiah 8:6שָׁ֚ב · has pursued
    I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
  40. Jeremiah 11:10שָׁ֩בוּ֩ · They have returned
    They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
  41. Jeremiah 12:15אָשׁ֖וּב · I will once again; וַהֲשִׁבֹתִ֛ים · and return
    But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
  42. Jeremiah 14:3שָׁ֤בוּ · return
    The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
  43. Jeremiah 15:7שָֽׁבוּ׃ · turned
    I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.
  44. Jeremiah 15:19תָּשׁ֤וּב · you return
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.