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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. Joel 3:1אָשׁוּב · I restore
    “Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,
  2. Joel 3:4אָשִׁ֥יב · return
    Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.
  3. Joel 3:7וַהֲשִׁבֹתִ֥י · I will return
    Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
  4. Amos 1:3אֲשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ · revoke [My judgment]
    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
  5. Amos 1:6אֲשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ · revoke [My judgment]
    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Gaza, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they exiled a whole population, delivering them up to Edom.
  6. Amos 1:8וַהֲשִׁיב֨וֹתִי · I will turn
    I will cut off the ruler of Ashdod and the one who wields the scepter in Ashkelon. I will turn My hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,” says the Lord GOD.
  7. Amos 1:9אֲשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ · revoke [My judgment]
    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant of brotherhood.
  8. Amos 1:11אֲשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ · revoke [My judgment]
    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.
  9. Amos 1:13אֲשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ · revoke [My judgment]
    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.
  10. Amos 2:1אֲשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ · revoke [My judgment]
    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.
  11. Amos 2:4אֲשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ · revoke [My judgment]
    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
  12. Amos 2:6אֲשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ · revoke [My judgment]
    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
  13. Amos 4:6שַׁבְתֶּ֥ם · return
    “I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
  14. Amos 4:8שַׁבְתֶּ֥ם · return
    People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
  15. Amos 4:9שַׁבְתֶּ֥ם · return
    “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
  16. Amos 4:10שַׁבְתֶּ֥ם · return
    “I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
  17. Amos 4:11שַׁבְתֶּ֥ם · return
    “Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
  18. Amos 9:14וְשַׁבְתִּי֮ · I will restore
    I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
  19. Obadiah 1:15יָשׁ֥וּב · will return
    For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.
  20. Jonah 1:13לְהָשִׁ֛יב · to get back
    Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.
  21. Jonah 3:8וְיָשֻׁ֗בוּ · turn
    Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.
  22. Jonah 3:9יָשׁ֔וּב · may turn; וְשָׁ֛ב · He may turn
    Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
  23. Jonah 3:10שָׁ֖בוּ · they had turned
    When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
  24. Micah 1:7יָשֽׁוּבוּ׃ · will be used again
    All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
  25. Micah 2:8שׁוּבֵ֖י · like men returning
    But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.
  26. Micah 5:3יְשׁוּב֖וּן · will return
    Therefore Israel will be abandoned until she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of His brothers will return to the children of Israel.
  27. Micah 7:19יָשׁ֣וּב · He will again
    He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
  28. Nahum 2:2שָׁ֤ב · will restore
    For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.
  29. Habakkuk 2:1אָשִׁ֖יב · I should answer
    I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.
  30. Zephaniah 2:7וְשָׁ֥ב · and restore
    The coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will attend to them and restore their captives.
  31. Zephaniah 3:20בְּשׁוּבִ֧י · when I restore
    At that time I will bring you in; yes, at that time I will gather you. For I will give you fame and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your captives before your very eyes,” says the LORD.
  32. Zechariah 1:3שׁ֣וּבוּ · Return; וְאָשׁ֣וּב · and I will return
    So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
  33. Zechariah 1:4שׁ֤וּבוּ · Turn
    Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
  34. Zechariah 1:6וַיָּשׁ֣וּבוּ · They repented
    But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
  35. Zechariah 1:16שַׁ֤בְתִּי · I will return
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’
  36. Zechariah 4:1וַיָּ֕שָׁב · returned
    Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened from his sleep.
  37. Zechariah 5:1וָאָשׁ֕וּב · Again
    Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.
  38. Zechariah 6:1וָאָשֻׁ֗ב · And again
    And again I lifted up my eyes and saw four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze.
  39. Zechariah 7:14וּמִשָּׁ֑ב · or go
    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
  40. Zechariah 8:3שַׁ֚בְתִּי · I will return
    This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”
  41. Zechariah 8:15שַׁ֤בְתִּי · again
    …“so now I have resolved to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.
  42. Zechariah 9:8וּמִשָּׁ֔ב
    But I will camp around My house because of an army, because of those who march to and fro, and never again will an oppressor overrun My people, for now I keep watch with My own eyes.
  43. Zechariah 9:12שׁ֚וּבוּ · Return; אָשִׁ֥יב · that I will restore
    Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.
  44. Zechariah 10:6וְהֽוֹשְׁבוֹתִים֙ · I will restore them
    I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.
  45. Zechariah 10:9וָשָֽׁבוּ׃ · and return
    Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember Me in distant lands; they and their children will live and return.
  46. Zechariah 10:10וַהֲשִֽׁיבוֹתִים֙ · I will bring them back
    I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon until no more room is found for them.
  47. Zechariah 13:7וַהֲשִׁבֹתִ֥י · and I will turn
    Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.