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)


  • Genesis 20:14 - took And Abimelech sheep and oxen and menservants and womenservants and gave them unto Abraham and restored him Sarah his wife

  • Genesis 21:32 - Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba rose up then Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host and they returned into the land of the Philistines

  • Genesis 22:5 - said And Abraham and I and the lad Abide ye here with the ass and I and the lad yonder and worship and come again

  • Genesis 22:19 - returned So Abraham unto his young men and they rose up together at Beersheba dwelt So Abraham at Beersheba

  • Genesis 24:5 - said And the servant will not be willing unto him Peradventure the woman me unto the land again again thy son unto the land from whence thou camest

  • Genesis 24:6 - said And Abraham unto him Beware not thither again my son

  • Genesis 24:8 - will not be willing And if the woman thee then thou shalt be clear from this my oath not my son only bring

  • Genesis 26:18 - again And Isaac digged the wells of water by which digged in the days of Abraham his father had stopped for the Philistines them after the death of Abraham and he called after the names after the names by which and he called his father

  • Genesis 27:44 - And tarry days with him a few until turn away fury thy brother's

  • Genesis 27:45 - turn away anger Until thy brother's from thee and he forget that which thou hast done to him then I will send and fetch thee from thence why should I be deprived also of you both day in one

  • Genesis 28:15 - And behold I am with thee and will keep thee in all places whither and will bring thee again into this land for I will not leave thee in all places whither I have done thee in all places whither that which I have spoken

  • Genesis 28:21 - So that I come again in peace house to my father's then shall the LORD be my God

  • Genesis 29:3 - gathered And thither were all the flocks and they rolled the stone mouth from the well's and watered the sheep again the stone mouth from the well's in his place

  • Genesis 30:31 - And he said Thou shalt not give And he said And Jacob Thou shalt not give me any thing if thou wilt do this thing for me I will again feed thy flock and keep

  • Genesis 31:3 - said And the LORD unto Jacob Return unto the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred

  • Genesis 31:13 - I am the God of Bethel where thou anointedst the pillar and where thou vowedst a vow unto me now arise get thee out from this land and return from this land of thy kindred

  • Genesis 31:55 - And early Laban in the morning and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed and returned Laban unto his place

  • Genesis 32:6 - returned And the messengers to Jacob saying We came to thy brother Esau and also he cometh to meet thee and four hundred men

  • Genesis 32:9 - said And Jacob O God of my father Abraham O God of my father Isaac the LORD said unto me Return unto thy country and to thy kindred and I will deal well

  • Genesis 33:16 - returned that day So Esau on his way unto Seir