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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. Ruth 1:12שֹׁ֤בְנָה · Return home
    Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
  2. Ruth 1:15שָׁ֣בָה · has gone back; שׁ֖וּבִי · follow
    “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
  3. Ruth 1:16לָשׁ֣וּב · [or] to turn
    But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
  4. Ruth 1:21הֱשִׁיבַ֣נִי · has brought me back
    I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”
  5. Ruth 1:22וַתָּ֣שָׁב · returned; הַשָּׁ֖בָה
    So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
  6. Ruth 2:6הַשָּׁ֥בָה · who returned
    The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.
  7. Ruth 4:3הַשָּׁ֖בָה · who has returned
    And he said to the kinsman-redeemer, “Naomi, who has returned from the land of Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.
  8. Ruth 4:15לְמֵשִׁ֣יב
    He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
  9. 1 Samuel 1:19וַיָּשֻׁ֛בוּ · and then they returned
    The next morning they got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then they returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.
  10. 1 Samuel 3:5שׁ֣וּב · Go back
    He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” “I did not call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down.
  11. 1 Samuel 3:6שׁ֥וּב · Go back
    Once again the LORD called, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” “My son, I did not call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.”
  12. 1 Samuel 5:3וַיָּשִׁ֥בוּ · and returned
    When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.
  13. 1 Samuel 5:11וְיָשֹׁ֣ב · It must return
    Then the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was very heavy upon it.
  14. 1 Samuel 6:3הָשֵׁ֥ב · by all means return [it]; תָּשִׁ֛יבוּ
    They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”
  15. 1 Samuel 6:4נָשִׁ֣יב · should we send back
    “What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.
  16. 1 Samuel 6:7וַהֲשֵׁיבֹתֶ֧ם · away
    Now, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
  17. 1 Samuel 6:8הֲשֵׁבֹתֶ֥ם · you are sending back
    Take the ark of the LORD, set it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to Him as a guilt offering. Then send the ark on its way,
  18. 1 Samuel 6:16וַיָּשֻׁ֥בוּ · they returned
    And when the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they returned to Ekron that same day.
  19. 1 Samuel 6:17הֵשִׁ֧יבוּ · had sent back
    As a guilt offering to the LORD, the Philistines had sent back one gold tumor for each city: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.
  20. 1 Samuel 6:21הֵשִׁ֤בוּ · have returned
    So they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up with you.”
  21. 1 Samuel 7:3שָׁבִים֙ · are returning
    Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
  22. 1 Samuel 7:14וַתָּשֹׁ֣בְנָה · were restored
    The cities from Ekron to Gath, which the Philistines had taken, were restored to Israel, who also delivered the surrounding territory from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between the Israelites and the Amorites.
  23. 1 Samuel 9:5וְנָשׁ֑וּבָה · let us go back
    When they reached the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant, “Come, let us go back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us.”
  24. 1 Samuel 12:3וְאָשִׁ֖יב · [Tell me,] and I will restore [it]
    Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.”
  25. 1 Samuel 14:27וַיָּ֤שֶׁב · and put
    Jonathan, however, had not heard that his father had bound the people with the oath. So he reached out the end of the staff in his hand, dipped it into the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened.
  26. 1 Samuel 15:11שָׁב֙ · he has turned away
    “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.
  27. 1 Samuel 15:25וְשׁ֣וּב · and return
    Now therefore, please forgive my sin and return with me so I can worship the LORD.”
  28. 1 Samuel 15:26אָשׁ֖וּב · return
    “I will not return with you,” Samuel replied. “For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and He has rejected you as king over Israel.”
  29. 1 Samuel 15:30וְשׁ֣וּב · Come back
    “I have sinned,” Saul replied. “Please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me, so that I may worship the LORD your God.”
  30. 1 Samuel 15:31וַיָּ֥שָׁב · went back
    So Samuel went back with Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.
  31. 1 Samuel 17:15וָשָׁ֖ב
    …but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
  32. 1 Samuel 17:30וַיְשִׁבֻ֤הוּ · answered him
    Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.
  33. 1 Samuel 17:53וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ · returned
    When the Israelites returned from their pursuit of the Philistines, they plundered their camps.
  34. 1 Samuel 17:57וּכְשׁ֣וּב · returned
    So when David returned from killing the Philistine, still holding his head in his hand, Abner took him and brought him before Saul.
  35. 1 Samuel 18:2לָשׁ֖וּב · return
    And from that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return to his father’s house.
  36. 1 Samuel 18:6בְּשׁ֤וּב · were returning home
    As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.
  37. 1 Samuel 23:23וְשַׁבְתֶּ֤ם · Then come back
    Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”
  38. 1 Samuel 23:28וַיָּ֣שָׁב · broke off
    So Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to meet the Philistines. That is why that place is called Sela-hammahlekoth.
  39. 1 Samuel 24:1שָׁ֣ב · had returned
    After Saul had returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.”
  40. 1 Samuel 25:12וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ · and went back
    So David’s men turned around and went back, and they relayed to him all these words.
  41. 1 Samuel 25:21וַיָּֽשֶׁב־ · yet he has paid me back
    Now David had just said, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.
  42. 1 Samuel 25:39הֵשִׁ֥יב · has brought
    On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought the wickedness of Nabal down upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.
  43. 1 Samuel 26:21שׁ֣וּב · Come back
    Then Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. I will never harm you again, because today you considered my life precious. I have played the fool and have committed a grave error!”
  44. 1 Samuel 26:23יָשִׁ֣יב · repay
    May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not extend my hand against the LORD’s anointed.
  45. 1 Samuel 26:25שָׁ֥ב · returned
    Saul said to him, “May you be blessed, David my son. You will accomplish great things and will surely prevail.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned home.
  46. 1 Samuel 27:9וַיָּ֖שָׁב · Then he would return
    Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would return to Achish,
  47. 1 Samuel 29:4הָשֵׁ֣ב · back
    But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the war. What better way for him to regain the favor of his master than with the heads of our men?