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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. Leviticus 22:13וְשָׁבָ֞ה · and returns
    But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.
  2. Leviticus 25:10וְשַׁבְתֶּ֗ם · of you is to return; תָּשֻֽׁבוּ׃
    So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
  3. Leviticus 25:13תָּשֻׁ֕בוּ · of you shall return
    In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.
  4. Leviticus 25:27וְהֵשִׁיב֙ · repay; וְשָׁ֖ב · and return
    …he shall calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property.
  5. Leviticus 25:28הָשִׁ֣יב · to repay; וְשָׁ֖ב · so that he may return
    But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.
  6. Leviticus 25:41וְשָׁב֙ · and he may return; יָשֽׁוּב׃
    Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.
  7. Leviticus 25:51יָשִׁ֣יב · he must pay
    If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.
  8. Leviticus 25:52יָשִׁ֖יב · and pay
    If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.
  9. Leviticus 26:26וְהֵשִׁ֥יבוּ · and dole out
    When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
  10. Leviticus 27:24יָשׁ֣וּב · shall return
    In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.
  11. Numbers 5:7וְהֵשִׁ֤יב · He must make full restitution
    …and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution, add a fifth to its value, and give all this to the one he has wronged.
  12. Numbers 5:8לְהָשִׁ֤יב · to whom restitution can be made for; הַמּוּשָׁ֥ב · the restitution
    But if the man has no relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest along with the ram of atonement, by which the atonement is made for him.
  13. Numbers 8:25יָשׁ֖וּב · they must retire
    But at the age of fifty, they must retire from performing the work and no longer serve.
  14. Numbers 10:36שׁוּבָ֣ה · Return
    And when it came to rest, he would say: “Return, O LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.”
  15. Numbers 11:4וַיָּשֻׁ֣בוּ · again
    Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
  16. Numbers 13:25וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ · [the men] returned
    After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,
  17. Numbers 13:26וַיָּשִׁ֨יבוּ · They brought back
    …and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
  18. Numbers 14:3שׁ֥וּב · to go back
    Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
  19. Numbers 14:4וְנָשׁ֥וּבָה · and return
    So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
  20. Numbers 14:36וַיָּשֻׁ֗בוּ · had returned
    So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—
  21. Numbers 14:43שַׁבְתֶּם֙ · you have turned
    For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”
  22. Numbers 16:50וַיָּ֤שָׁב · returned
    Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, since the plague had been halted.
  23. Numbers 17:10הָשֵׁ֞ב · Put
    The LORD said to Moses, “Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the Testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebellious, so that you may put an end to their grumbling against Me, lest they die.”
  24. Numbers 18:9יָשִׁ֣יבוּ · they render
    A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.
  25. Numbers 22:8וַהֲשִׁבֹתִ֤י · and I will give
    “Spend the night here,” Balaam replied, “and I will give you the answer that the LORD speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
  26. Numbers 22:34אָשׁ֥וּבָה · I will go back
    “I have sinned,” Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “for I did not realize that you were standing in the road to confront me. And now, if this is displeasing in your sight, I will go back home.”
  27. Numbers 23:5שׁ֥וּב · Return
    Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”
  28. Numbers 23:6וַיָּ֣שָׁב · So he returned
    So he returned to Balak, who was standing there beside his burnt offering, with all the princes of Moab.
  29. Numbers 23:16שׁ֥וּב · Return
    And the LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak what I tell you.”
  30. Numbers 23:20אֲשִׁיבֶֽנָּה׃ · change it
    I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.
  31. Numbers 24:25וַיָּ֣שָׁב · and returned
    Then Balaam arose and returned to his homeland, and Balak also went on his way.
  32. Numbers 25:4וְיָשֹׁ֛ב · may turn away
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
  33. Numbers 25:11הֵשִׁ֤יב · has turned
    “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.
  34. Numbers 32:15תְשׁוּבֻן֙ · you turn away
    For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”
  35. Numbers 32:18נָשׁ֖וּב · return
    We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has taken possession of his inheritance.
  36. Numbers 32:22תָּשֻׁ֔בוּ · you may return
    …then when the land is subdued before the LORD, you may return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will belong to you as a possession before the LORD.
  37. Numbers 33:7וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ · and turned back
    They set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon, and they camped near Migdol.
  38. Numbers 35:25וְהֵשִׁ֤יבוּ · will return
    The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
  39. Numbers 35:28יָשׁוּב֙ · return
    …because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.
  40. Numbers 35:32לָשׁוּב֙ · and allow him to return
    Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.
  41. Deuteronomy 1:22וְיָשִׁ֤בוּ · and bring us
    Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”
  42. Deuteronomy 1:25וַיָּשִׁ֨בוּ · and brought us
    They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
  43. Deuteronomy 1:45וַתָּשֻׁ֥בוּ · And you returned
    And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.
  44. Deuteronomy 3:20וְשַׁבְתֶּ֗ם · may return
    …until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they too have taken possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the possession I have given you.”
  45. Deuteronomy 4:30וְשַׁבְתָּ֙ · you will return
    When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.