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)


  • Ezekiel 47:6 - And he said hast thou seen unto me Son of man me and caused me to return to the brink of the river

  • Ezekiel 47:7 - Now when I had returned behold at the bank of the river trees many were very

  • Ezra 2:1 - Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity of those which had been carried away had carried away whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon of Babylon and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah every one unto his city

  • Ezra 6:21 - did eat And the children of Israel which were come again out of captivity and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land to seek the LORD God of Israel

  • Ezra 9:14 - Should we again break thy commandments and join in affinity with the people of these abominations wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping

  • Ezra 10:14 - stand Let now our rulers of all the congregation in our cities and let all them which have taken wives strange come times at appointed and with them the elders in our cities in our cities and the judges be turned thereof until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter

  • Genesis 3:19 - In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till shalt thou return unto the ground for out of it wast thou taken art and unto dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return

  • Genesis 8:3 - returned And the waters from off the earth continually returned were abated And the waters and after the end and fifty of the hundred days

  • Genesis 8:7 - And he sent forth a raven to to and fro were dried up until the waters from off the earth

  • Genesis 8:9 - found But the dove no rest for the sole of her foot and she returned unto him into the ark for the waters were on the face of the whole earth then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in unto him into the ark

  • Genesis 8:12 - And he stayed unto him any more seven days yet other and sent forth the dove not again which returned unto him any more

  • Genesis 14:7 - And they returned and came to Enmishpat which is Kadesh and smote all the country of the Amalekites and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezontamar

  • Genesis 14:16 - And he brought back all the goods Lot his brother all the goods And he brought back and the women also and the people

  • Genesis 14:17 - went out And the king of Sodom to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer And the king dale of Shaveh which dale And the king

  • Genesis 15:16 - generation But in the fourth again is not yet full for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet

  • Genesis 16:9 - said And the angel of the LORD unto her Return to thy mistress and submit thyself under her hands

  • Genesis 18:10 - And he said I will certainly I will certainly unto thee according to the time of life shall have a son And Sarah thy wife And Sarah heard door it in the tent which was behind him

  • Genesis 18:14 - Is for the LORD any thing At the time appointed I will return unto thee according to the time of life and Sarah shall have a son

  • Genesis 18:33 - And the LORD as soon as he had left communing and Abraham and Abraham returned unto his place

  • Genesis 20:7 - Now therefore restore his wife the man for he is a prophet and he shall pray for thee and thou shalt live Now therefore restore her not know die die