Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H7725: שׁוּב (shûwb) Definition

Strong's number
H7725
Lemma
שׁוּב
Transliteration
shûwb
Pronunciation
shoob
Strong's definition
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 ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) [idiom] again, (cause to) answer ([phrase] again), [idiom] in any case (wise), [idiom] at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, [idiom] certainly, come again (back), [idiom] consider, [phrase] continually, convert, deliver (again), [phrase] deny, draw back, fetch home again, [idiom] fro, get (oneself) (back) again, [idiom] give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, [idiom] needs, be past, [idiom] 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, [phrase] say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, [idiom] surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw. a primitive root;

947 instances of the word שׁוּב shûwb (H7725)


  • 2 Samuel 12:23 - But now he is dead wherefore should I fast can I bring him back again I shall go I bring him back again

  • 2 Samuel 12:31 - and all the people And he brought forth that were therein and put them under saws and under harrows of iron and under axes of iron and made them pass through the brickkiln and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon returned So David and all the people unto Jerusalem

  • 2 Samuel 14:13 - said And the woman Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God doth speak for the king this thing as one which is faulty doth not fetch home again for the king his banished

  • 2 Samuel 14:21 - said And the king unto Joab Behold now I have done this thing again the young man Absalom

  • 2 Samuel 15:8 - a vow vowed For thy servant while I abode at Geshur in Syria saying shall bring me again shall bring me again If the LORD indeed to Jerusalem then I will serve If the LORD

  • 2 Samuel 15:19 - Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite thou also with us return and abide the king for thou art a stranger and also an exile to thy place

  • 2 Samuel 15:20 - but yesterday Whereas thou camest should I this day up and down make thee go with us seeing I go with us seeing I go thou and take back thou and take back thy brethren mercy and truth

  • 2 Samuel 15:25 - said And the king unto Zadok Carry back the ark of God into the city if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD Carry back and shew me both it and his habitation

  • 2 Samuel 15:27 - said The king also unto Zadok the priest Art not thou a seer return into the city in peace with you Ahimaaz sons and Jonathan sons of Abiathar and your two sons

  • 2 Samuel 15:29 - again Zadok therefore and Abiathar the ark of God to Jerusalem and they tarried

  • 2 Samuel 15:34 - to the city But if thou return and say unto Absalom I will be thy servant O king I will be thy servant as I have been thy father's hitherto I will be thy servant then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel

  • 2 Samuel 16:3 - for he said And the king son And where is thy master's for he said And Ziba And the king Behold he abideth at Jerusalem for he said To day restore shall the house of Israel me the kingdom of my father

  • 2 Samuel 16:8 - hath returned The LORD because thou art a bloody of the house of Saul in whose stead thou hast reigned hath delivered The LORD the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son and behold thou art taken in thy mischief man because thou art a bloody

  • 2 Samuel 16:12 - will look It may be that the LORD will requite It may be that the LORD me good for his cursing this day

  • 2 Samuel 17:3 - And I will bring back all the people And I will bring back unto thee the man whom thou seekest all the people shall be in peace

  • 2 Samuel 17:20 - came servants And when Absalom's And the woman to the house said Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan said And the woman unto them They be gone over the brook of water And when they had sought and could not find them they returned to Jerusalem

  • 2 Samuel 18:16 - blew And Joab the trumpet returned and the people from pursuing after Israel held back And Joab and the people

  • 2 Samuel 19:10 - And Absalom whom we anointed over us is dead in battle Now therefore why speak back the king

  • 2 Samuel 19:11 - And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests saying Speak unto the elders of Judah saying Why are ye the last back And king even to his house seeing the speech of all Israel is come And king even to his house

  • 2 Samuel 19:12 - Ye are my brethren ye are my bones and my flesh wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king