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)


  • Job 35:4 - I will answer thee and thy companions

  • Job 36:10 - He openeth also their ear to discipline and commandeth that they return from iniquity

  • Job 39:4 - are in good liking Their young ones they grow up with corn they go forth and return

  • Job 39:12 - Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed it into thy barn and gather

  • Job 39:22 - He mocketh at fear and is not affrighted neither turneth he back from the sword

  • Job 40:4 - Behold I am vile what shall I answer mine hand thee I will lay upon my mouth

  • Job 42:10 - And the LORD turned the captivity Job when he prayed for his friends gave And the LORD Job twice as much

  • Joel 2:12 - Therefore also now saith the LORD turn ye even to me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning

  • Joel 2:13 - And rend your heart and not your garments and turn unto the LORD your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil

  • Joel 2:14 - Who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave behind a blessing him even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God

  • Joel 3:1 - For behold in those days and in that time when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem

  • Joel 3:4 - Yea and what have ye to do with me O Tyre and Zidon and all the coasts of Palestine me a recompence will ye render and if ye recompense me swiftly and speedily will I return me a recompence upon your own head

  • Joel 3:7 - Behold I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them and will return your recompence upon your own head

  • Jonah 1:13 - rowed hard Nevertheless the men to bring it to the land but they could not for the sea wrought and was tempestuous

  • Jonah 3:8 - be covered with sackcloth But let man and beast and cry unto God mightily yea let them turn every one way from his evil and from the violence that is in their hands

  • Jonah 3:9 - Who can tell and turn away and repent if God and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish

  • Jonah 3:10 - saw And God their works that they turned way from their evil repented And God from their evil that he had said that he would do that he would do

  • Joshua 1:15 - have given Until the LORD your brethren and enjoy the land Until the LORD your God gave them then ye shall return the land of your possession and enjoy gave it which Moses servant Until the LORD you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising

  • Joshua 2:16 - And she said you to the mountain meet lest the pursuers you and hide yourselves there three days be returned lest the pursuers and afterward your way

  • Joshua 2:22 - and came unto the mountain and abode there three days were returned and the pursuers sought and the pursuers them throughout all the way but found