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)


  • Ruth 1:15 - And she said is gone back Behold thy sister in law unto her people and unto her gods is gone back thou after Behold thy sister in law

  • Ruth 1:16 - said And Ruth Intreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after I will lodge I will lodge shall be my people shall be my people and thy God and thy God

  • Ruth 1:21 - full I went out empty hath brought me home again and the LORD why then call ye me Naomi and the LORD hath testified against me and the Almighty hath afflicted

  • Ruth 1:22 - returned So Naomi and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter in law returned out of the country of Moab and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning harvest of barley

  • Ruth 2:6 - answered And the servant that was set over the reapers and said damsel It is the Moabitish that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab

  • Ruth 4:3 - And he said unto the kinsman a parcel of land which was our brother Elimelech's selleth Naomi that is come again of land of Moab

  • Ruth 4:15 - And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age for thy daughter in law which loveth hath born thee which is better to thee than seven sons

  • Song of Solomon 6:13 - Return Return O Shulamite Return Return that we may look that we may look O Shulamite As it were the company of two armies

  • Zechariah 1:3 - Therefore say Therefore say the LORD of hosts Turn ye unto me saith the LORD of hosts Turn Therefore say the LORD of hosts

  • Zechariah 1:4 - Be ye not as your fathers have cried prophets unto whom the former Thus saith Thus saith the LORD of hosts Turn ways and from your evil doings and from your evil but they did not hear nor hearken unto me saith the LORD

  • Zechariah 1:6 - But my words and my statutes which I commanded my servants the prophets did they not take hold of your fathers and they returned and said thought Like as the LORD of hosts so hath he dealt unto us according to our ways and according to our doings so hath he dealt

  • Zechariah 1:16 - Therefore thus saith the LORD I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies my house shall be built in it saith the LORD of hosts and a line shall be stretched forth to Jerusalem

  • Zechariah 4:1 - with me came again And the angel that talked and waked me as a man and waked out of his sleep

  • Zechariah 5:1 - Then I turned and lifted up mine eyes and looked roll and behold a flying

  • Zechariah 6:1 - And I turned and lifted up mine eyes and looked four chariots and behold there came from between two and the mountains and the mountains and the mountains of brass

  • Zechariah 7:14 - But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew land desolate after them that no man passed through nor returned for they laid land the pleasant was desolate

  • Zechariah 8:3 - Thus saith of the LORD I am returned unto Zion and will dwell in the midst and Jerusalem shall be called and Jerusalem a city of truth and the mountain of the LORD of hosts and the mountain the holy

  • Zechariah 8:15 - So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah fear

  • Zechariah 9:8 - And I will encamp about mine house because of the army because of him that passeth by and because of him that returneth because of him that passeth by and no oppressor them any more for now have I seen with mine eyes

  • Zechariah 9:12 - Turn you to the strong hold ye prisoners of hope even to day do I declare double Turn