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)


  • Judges 9:57 - And all the evil of Shechem render did God upon their heads and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal

  • Judges 11:8 - said And the elders of Gilead unto Jephthah Therefore we turn again to thee now that thou mayest go with us and fight against the children of Ammon and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead

  • Judges 11:9 - said And Jephthah unto the elders of Gilead If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon deliver and the LORD them before me shall I be your head

  • Judges 11:13 - answered And the king of the children of Ammon unto the messengers of Jephthah took away Because Israel my land when they came up out of Egypt from Arnon even unto Jabbok and unto Jordan now therefore restore those lands again peaceably

  • Judges 11:31 - Then it shall be that whatsoever Then it shall be that whatsoever of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon shall surely be the LORD'S and I will offer it up for a burnt offering

  • Judges 11:35 - And it came to pass when he saw her that he rent his clothes and said Alas my daughter thou hast brought thou hast brought and thou art one of them that trouble me for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD and I cannot go back

  • Judges 11:39 - And it came to pass at the end of two months that she returned unto her father who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed and she knew no man And it was a custom in Israel

  • Judges 14:8 - he returned And after a time to take her and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion and behold there was a swarm of bees in the carcase of the lion and honey

  • Judges 15:19 - clave But God an hollow place that was in the jaw and there came water thereout and when he had drunk came again his spirit and he revived wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore which is in Lehi unto this day

  • Judges 17:3 - And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver his mother said his mother I had wholly I had wholly shekels of silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son to make a graven image and a molten image And when he had restored

  • Judges 17:4 - Yet he restored shekels of silver and his mother took and his mother two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the founder who made thereof a graven image and a molten image and they were in the house of Micah

  • Judges 18:26 - And the children of Dan their way saw and when Micah that they were too strong for him he turned and went back unto his house

  • Judges 19:3 - arose And her husband after her to speak friendly unto her and to bring her again having his servant with him and a couple of asses and she brought house and when the father saw and when the father of the damsel him he rejoiced to meet

  • Judges 19:7 - rose up And when the man urged his father in law there again him therefore he lodged

  • Judges 20:48 - And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin and smote them with the edge of the sword all the cities as well the men as the beast as and all that came to hand all the cities and all that came to hand also they set on fire

  • Judges 21:14 - came again And Benjamin at that time and they gave of the women which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead and yet so they sufficed

  • Judges 21:23 - did so And the children of Benjamin and took them wives according to their number of them that danced whom they caught and returned unto their inheritance and repaired the cities and dwelt

  • Lamentations 1:8 - hath grievously sinned Jerusalem therefore she is removed all that honoured her despise her because they have seen her nakedness yea she sigheth and turneth backward

  • Lamentations 1:11 - All her people sigh they seek bread they have given for meat to relieve the soul see O LORD and consider for I am become vile

  • Lamentations 1:13 - From above hath he sent fire into my bones and it prevaileth against them he hath spread a net for my feet he hath turned me back he hath made me desolate all the day and faint