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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. 2 Samuel 19:39וַיָּ֖שָׁב · and Barzillai returned
    So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king crossed over. The king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and Barzillai returned home.
  2. 2 Samuel 19:43לְהָשִׁ֣יב · of restoring
    “We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah spoke more fiercely than the men of Israel.
  3. 2 Samuel 20:22שָׁ֥ב · returned
    Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
  4. 2 Samuel 22:21יָשִׁ֥יב · He has repaid
    The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
  5. 2 Samuel 22:25וַיָּ֧שֶׁב · has repaid
    So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.
  6. 2 Samuel 22:38אָשׁ֖וּב · turn back
    I pursued my enemies and destroyed them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.
  7. 2 Samuel 23:10יָשֻׁ֥בוּ · returned
    …but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.
  8. 2 Samuel 24:13אָשִׁ֥יב
    So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
  9. 1 Kings 2:16תָּשִׁ֖בִי · deny
    So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.
  10. 1 Kings 2:17יָשִׁ֖יב · turn you down
    Adonijah replied, “Please speak to King Solomon, since he will not turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”
  11. 1 Kings 2:20תָּ֖שֶׁב · deny; אָשִׁ֖יב · deny
    “I have just one small request of you,” she said. “Do not deny me.” “Make your request, my mother,” the king replied, “for I will not deny you.”
  12. 1 Kings 2:30וַיָּ֨שֶׁב
    And Benaiah entered the tent of the LORD and said to Joab, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” But Joab replied, “No, I will die here.” So Benaiah relayed the message to the king, saying, “This is how Joab answered me.”
  13. 1 Kings 2:32וְהֵשִׁיב֩ · will bring
    The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
  14. 1 Kings 2:33וְשָׁ֤בוּ · will come back
    Their blood will come back upon the heads of Joab and his descendants forever; but for David, his descendants, his house, and his throne, there shall be peace from the LORD forever.”
  15. 1 Kings 2:41וַיָּשֹֽׁב׃ · and had returned
    When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned,
  16. 1 Kings 2:44וְהֵשִׁ֧יב · will bring
    The king also said, “You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the LORD will bring your evil back upon your head.
  17. 1 Kings 8:33וְשָׁ֤בוּ · and they return
    When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,
  18. 1 Kings 8:34וַהֲשֵֽׁבֹתָם֙ · May You restore them
    …then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.
  19. 1 Kings 8:35יְשׁוּב֖וּן · and they turn
    When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
  20. 1 Kings 8:47וְהֵשִׁ֙יבוּ֙ · and when they come; וְשָׁ֣בוּ׀ · and they repent
    …and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
  21. 1 Kings 8:48וְשָׁ֣בוּ · and when they return
    …and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
  22. 1 Kings 9:6שׁ֨וֹב · indeed; תְּשֻׁב֜וּן · turn away
    But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
  23. 1 Kings 12:5וְשׁ֣וּבוּ · and then return
    Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.
  24. 1 Kings 12:6לְהָשִׁ֥יב · to respond
    Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
  25. 1 Kings 12:9וְנָשִׁ֥יב · that we send back
    He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
  26. 1 Kings 12:12שׁ֥וּבוּ · Come back
    After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
  27. 1 Kings 12:16וַיָּשִׁ֣בוּ
    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,
  28. 1 Kings 12:20שָׁ֣ב · had returned
    When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.
  29. 1 Kings 12:21לְהָשִׁיב֙ · and restore
    And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
  30. 1 Kings 12:24שׁ֚וּבוּ · of you must return; וַיָּשֻׁ֥בוּ · and turned back
    …that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.
  31. 1 Kings 12:26תָּשׁ֥וּב · might revert
    Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David.
  32. 1 Kings 12:27וְ֠שָׁב · will return; וְשָׁ֖בוּ · and return
    If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
  33. 1 Kings 13:4לַהֲשִׁיבָ֥הּ · pull it back
    Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
  34. 1 Kings 13:6וְתָשֹׁ֥ב · may be restored; וַתָּ֤שָׁב · was restored
    Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.
  35. 1 Kings 13:9תָשׁ֔וּב · or return
    For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”
  36. 1 Kings 13:10שָׁ֣ב · return
    So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.
  37. 1 Kings 13:16לָשׁ֥וּב · go home
    But the man replied, “I cannot go home with you, and I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
  38. 1 Kings 13:17תָשׁ֣וּב · or return
    For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”
  39. 1 Kings 13:18הֲשִׁבֵ֤הוּ · Bring him back
    Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
  40. 1 Kings 13:19וַיָּ֣שָׁב · but the man of God went back
    …but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.
  41. 1 Kings 13:20הֱשִׁיבֽוֹ׃ · had brought him back
    While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,
  42. 1 Kings 13:22וַתָּ֗שָׁב · but you went back
    …but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.’”
  43. 1 Kings 13:23הֱשִׁיבֽוֹ׃ · had brought him back
    And after the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet who had brought him back saddled the donkey for him.
  44. 1 Kings 13:26הֱשִׁיב֣וֹ · had brought him back
    When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”