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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. 1 Kings 13:29וַיְשִׁיבֵ֑הוּ · and brought it back
    So the old prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.
  2. 1 Kings 13:33שָׁ֥ב · repent; וַ֠יָּשָׁב · but again
    Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.
  3. 1 Kings 14:28וֶהֱשִׁיב֖וּם · and [later] they would return them
    And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would bear the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.
  4. 1 Kings 17:21תָּ֥שָׁב · return
    Then he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this boy’s life return to him!”
  5. 1 Kings 17:22וַתָּ֧שָׁב · returned
    And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived.
  6. 1 Kings 18:43שֻׁ֖ב · Go back
    “Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
  7. 1 Kings 19:6וַיָּ֖שָׁב · again
    And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.
  8. 1 Kings 19:7וַיָּשָׁב֩ · returned
    A second time the angel of the LORD returned and touched him, saying, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.”
  9. 1 Kings 19:15שׁ֥וּב · back
    Then the LORD said to him, “Go back by the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you arrive, you are to anoint Hazael as king over Aram.
  10. 1 Kings 19:20שׁ֔וּב · back
    So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”
  11. 1 Kings 19:21וַיָּ֨שָׁב · So [Elisha] turned back
    So Elisha turned back from him, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. Using the oxen’s equipment for fuel, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow and serve Elijah.
  12. 1 Kings 20:5וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ · came back
    The messengers came back and said, “This is what Ben-hadad says: ‘I have sent to you to demand your silver, your gold, your wives, and your children.
  13. 1 Kings 20:9וַיְשִׁבֻ֖הוּ
    So Ahab answered the messengers of Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you demanded of your servant the first time I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’” So the messengers departed and relayed the message to Ben-hadad.
  14. 1 Kings 20:34אָשִׁ֗יב · I will restore
    Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I release you,” Ahab replied. So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.
  15. 1 Kings 22:17יָשׁ֥וּבוּ · return
    So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”
  16. 1 Kings 22:26וַהֲשִׁיבֵ֖הוּ · and return him
    And the king of Israel declared, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,
  17. 1 Kings 22:28שׁ֤וֹב · you ever return; תָּשׁוּב֙
    But Micaiah replied, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take heed, all you people!”
  18. 1 Kings 22:33וַיָּשׁ֖וּבוּ · they turned back
    And when the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
  19. 2 Kings 1:5וַיָּשׁ֥וּבוּ · returned; שַׁבְתֶּֽם׃ · have you returned
    When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned?”
  20. 2 Kings 1:6שׁוּבוּ֮ · back
    They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’”
  21. 2 Kings 1:11וַיָּ֜שָׁב
    So the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. And the captain said to Elijah, “Man of God, the king declares, ‘Come down at once!’”
  22. 2 Kings 1:13וַיָּ֗שָׁב · So
    So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, “Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours please be precious in your sight.
  23. 2 Kings 2:13וַיָּ֥שָׁב · and he went back
    Elisha also picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah, and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.
  24. 2 Kings 2:18וַיָּשֻׁ֣בוּ · When they returned
    When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”
  25. 2 Kings 2:25שָׁ֥ב · he returned
    And Elisha went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
  26. 2 Kings 3:4וְהֵשִׁ֤יב · and he would render
    Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.
  27. 2 Kings 3:27וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ · and returned
    So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him, and offered him as a burnt offering on the city wall. And there was great fury against the Israelites, so they withdrew and returned to their own land.
  28. 2 Kings 4:22וְאָשֽׁוּבָה׃ · and return
    And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”
  29. 2 Kings 4:31וַיָּ֤שָׁב · So he went back
    Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
  30. 2 Kings 4:35וַיָּ֜שָׁב · Elisha turned away
    Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
  31. 2 Kings 4:38שָׁ֤ב · returned
    When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
  32. 2 Kings 5:10וְיָשֹׁ֧ב · will be restored
    Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”
  33. 2 Kings 5:14וַיָּ֣שָׁב · was restored
    So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.
  34. 2 Kings 5:15וַיָּשָׁב֩ · went back
    Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, “Now I know for sure that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”
  35. 2 Kings 7:8וַיָּשֻׁ֗בוּ · On returning
    When the lepers reached the edge of the camp, they went into a tent to eat and drink. Then they carried off the silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid them. On returning, they entered another tent, carried off some items from there, and hid them.
  36. 2 Kings 7:15וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ · returned
    And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.
  37. 2 Kings 8:3וַתָּ֥שָׁב · returned
    At the end of seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to the king to appeal for her house and her land.
  38. 2 Kings 8:6הָשֵׁ֤יב · Restore
    When the king asked the woman, she confirmed it. So the king appointed for her an officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, along with all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the country until now.”
  39. 2 Kings 8:29וַיָּשָׁב֩ · returned
    So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.
  40. 2 Kings 9:15וַיָּשָׁב֩ · had returned
    …but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) So Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then do not let anyone escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”
  41. 2 Kings 9:18שָֽׁב׃ · coming back
    So a horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”
  42. 2 Kings 9:20שָׁ֑ב · coming back
    Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the charioteer is driving like Jehu son of Nimshi—he is driving like a madman!”
  43. 2 Kings 9:36וַיָּשֻׁבוּ֮ · So they went back
    So they went back and told Jehu, who replied, “This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke through His servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour the flesh of Jezebel.
  44. 2 Kings 13:25וַיָּ֜שָׁב · back; וַיָּ֖שֶׁב · and so recovered
    Then Jehoash son of Jehoahaz took back from Ben-hadad son of Hazael the cities that Hazael had taken in battle from his father Jehoahaz. Jehoash defeated Ben-hadad three times, and so recovered the cities of Israel.
  45. 2 Kings 14:14וַיָּ֖שָׁב · Then he returned
    He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace, as well as some hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.
  46. 2 Kings 14:22וַיְשִׁבֶ֖הָ · and restored it
    Azariah was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.