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 44:13 - Then they rent their clothes and laded every man his ass and returned to the city

  • Genesis 44:25 - said And our father Go again and buy us a little food

  • Genesis 48:21 - said And Israel unto Joseph Behold I die but God shall be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers

  • Genesis 50:5 - My father made me swear saying Lo I die in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan I pray thee and bury Now therefore let me go up I pray thee and bury My father and I will come again

  • Genesis 50:14 - returned And Joseph into Egypt he and his brethren and all that went up he had buried his father after he had buried his father

  • Genesis 50:15 - saw brethren And when Joseph's was dead that their father they said will peradventure hate us And when Joseph's and will certainly and will certainly us all the evil which we did

  • Habakkuk 2:1 - upon my watch I will stand and set me upon the tower and will watch to see what he will say unto me and what I shall answer when I am reproved

  • Hosea 2:7 - And she shall follow after her lovers but she shall not overtake them and she shall seek them but shall not find them then shall she say and return husband to my first for then was it better with me than now

  • Hosea 2:9 - Therefore will I return and take away my corn in the time thereof and my wine in the season thereof and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness

  • Hosea 3:5 - Afterward return shall the children of Israel and seek the LORD their God and David their king and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days

  • Hosea 4:9 - And there shall be like people like priest and I will punish them for their ways them their doings and reward

  • Hosea 5:4 - They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst the LORD of them and they have not known

  • Hosea 5:15 - and return to my place till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face in their affliction they will seek me early

  • Hosea 6:1 - and let us return unto the LORD for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will bind us up

  • Hosea 6:11 - Also O Judah he hath set an harvest for thee when I returned the captivity of my people

  • Hosea 7:10 - testifieth And the pride of Israel to his face and they do not return to the LORD their God nor seek

  • Hosea 7:16 - They return but not to the most High bow they are like a deceitful shall fall by the sword their princes for the rage of their tongue this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt

  • Hosea 8:13 - for the sacrifices of mine offerings They sacrifice flesh and eat it but the LORD accepteth them not now will he remember their iniquity and visit their sins to Egypt they shall return

  • Hosea 9:3 - They shall not dwell land in the LORD'S shall return but Ephraim to Egypt things in Assyria unclean and they shall eat

  • Hosea 11:5 - He shall not return into the land of Egypt but the Assyrian shall be his king because they refused He shall not return