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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. Jeremiah 34:15וַתָּשֻׁ֨בוּ · repented
    Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.
  2. Jeremiah 34:16וַתָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ · But now you have changed your minds; וַתָּשִׁ֗בוּ · has taken back
    But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
  3. Jeremiah 34:22וַהֲשִׁ֨בֹתִ֜ים · and I will bring them back
    Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
  4. Jeremiah 35:15שֻׁבוּ־ · Turn
    Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
  5. Jeremiah 36:3יָשׁ֗וּבוּ · will turn
    Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
  6. Jeremiah 36:7וְיָשֻׁ֕בוּ · one will turn
    Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way; for great are the anger and fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”
  7. Jeremiah 36:28שׁ֥וּב · and
    “Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.
  8. Jeremiah 37:7שָׁ֥ב · will go back
    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you, will go back to its own land of Egypt.
  9. Jeremiah 37:8וְשָׁ֙בוּ֙ · will return
    Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.
  10. Jeremiah 37:20תְּשִׁבֵ֗נִי · send me back
    But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”
  11. Jeremiah 38:26הֲשִׁיבֵ֛נִי · return me
    …then tell them, ‘I was presenting to the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”
  12. Jeremiah 40:5יָשׁ֗וּב · turned to go; וְשֻׁ֡בָה · Nebuzaradan
    But before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, “Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go anywhere else that seems right.” Then the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.
  13. Jeremiah 40:12וַיָּשֻׁ֣בוּ · returned
    …they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.
  14. Jeremiah 41:14וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙
    …and all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive at Mizpah turned and went over to Johanan son of Kareah.
  15. Jeremiah 41:16הֵ֠שִׁיב · he had recovered; הֵשִׁ֖יב · he had brought back
    Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him took the whole remnant of the people from Mizpah whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam: the soldiers, women, children, and court officials he had brought back from Gibeon.
  16. Jeremiah 42:10שׁ֤וֹב
    ‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.
  17. Jeremiah 42:12וְהֵשִׁ֥יב · and restore
    And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own land.’
  18. Jeremiah 43:5שָׁ֗בוּ · had returned
    Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the whole remnant of Judah, those who had returned to the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been scattered,
  19. Jeremiah 44:5לָשׁ֖וּב · turn
    But they did not listen or incline their ears; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.
  20. Jeremiah 44:14וְלָשׁ֣וּב׀ · to return; לָשׁוּב֙ · to return; יָשׁ֖וּבוּ · will return
    …so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”
  21. Jeremiah 44:28יְשֻׁב֨וּן · will return
    Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!
  22. Jeremiah 46:16וְנָשֻׁ֣בָה · Let us return
    They continue to stumble; indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, ‘Get up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.’
  23. Jeremiah 46:27וְשָׁ֧ב · will return
    But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
  24. Jeremiah 48:47וְשַׁבְתִּ֧י · I will restore
    Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.
  25. Jeremiah 49:6אָשִׁ֛יב · I will restore
    Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.
  26. Jeremiah 49:39אָשׁוּב · I will restore
    “Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity,” declares the LORD.
  27. Jeremiah 50:9יָשׁ֖וּב · return
    For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.
  28. Jeremiah 50:19וְשֹׁבַבְתִּ֤י · I will return
    I will return Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.
  29. Lamentations 1:8וַתָּ֥שָׁב · and turns
    Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
  30. Lamentations 1:11לְהָשִׁ֣יב · to keep themselves alive
    All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
  31. Lamentations 1:13הֱשִׁיבַ֣נִי · and turned me
    He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
  32. Lamentations 1:16מֵשִׁ֣יב · no one to revive
    For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
  33. Lamentations 1:19וְיָשִׁ֖יבוּ · to keep themselves
    I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
  34. Lamentations 2:3הֵשִׁ֥יב · [and] withdrawn
    In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
  35. Lamentations 2:8הֵשִׁ֥יב · withdraw
    The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
  36. Lamentations 2:14לְהָשִׁ֣יב · to ward off
    The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
  37. Lamentations 3:3יָשֻׁ֛ב · He keeps turning
    Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
  38. Lamentations 3:21אָשִׁ֥יב · Yet I call
    Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
  39. Lamentations 3:40וְנָשׁ֖וּבָה · and turn back
    Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
  40. Lamentations 3:64תָּשִׁ֨יב · You will pay them back
    You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
  41. Lamentations 5:21הֲשִׁיבֵ֨נוּ · Restore us; וְנָשׁוּב · so we may return
    Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
  42. Ezekiel 1:14וָשׁ֑וֹב
    The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.
  43. Ezekiel 3:19שָׁב֙ · turn
    But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
  44. Ezekiel 3:20וּבְשׁ֨וּב · turns
    Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.