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)


  • 2 Chronicles 30:8 - Now be ye not stiffnecked as your fathers were but yield yourselves the LORD and enter into his sanctuary which he hath sanctified for ever and serve the LORD your God may turn away that the fierceness of his wrath

  • 2 Chronicles 30:9 - For if ye turn again for the LORD your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive For if ye turn again into this land is gracious and merciful for the LORD your God and will not turn away before For if ye turn again

  • 2 Chronicles 31:1 - Now when all this was finished went out all Israel that were present into their own cities of Judah and brake the images and cut down the groves and threw down the high places and the altars of Judah and Benjamin in Ephraim also and Manasseh Now when all this was finished returned them all Then all the children all Israel every man to his possession into their own cities

  • 2 Chronicles 32:21 - sent And the LORD an angel which cut off all the mighty men of valour and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria So he returned with shame of face to his own land And when he was come into the house of his god they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword

  • 2 Chronicles 32:25 - according to the benefit rendered not again But Hezekiah was lifted up done unto him for his heart therefore there was wrath upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem

  • 2 Chronicles 33:3 - again For he built the high places had broken down which Hezekiah his father and he reared up altars for Baalim and made groves and worshipped all the host of heaven and served

  • 2 Chronicles 33:13 - And prayed unto him and he was intreated of him and heard his supplication and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom knew Then Manasseh that the LORD he was God

  • 2 Chronicles 34:7 - And when he had broken down the altars and the groves the graven images and had beaten into powder all the idols and cut down throughout all the land of Israel he returned to Jerusalem

  • 2 Chronicles 34:16 - carried And Shaphan the book the king and brought the king word again saying All that was committed to thy servants they do

  • 2 Chronicles 34:28 - Behold I will gather thee to thy fathers Behold I will gather to thy grave in peace see neither shall thine eyes all the evil that I will bring upon this place and upon the inhabitants again the king word

  • 2 Chronicles 36:13 - against king Nebuchadnezzar And he also rebelled who had made him swear God but he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel

  • 2 Kings 1:5 - turned back And when the messengers unto him he said unto them Why are ye now turned back

  • 2 Kings 1:6 - And they said a man on which thou art gone up to meet And they said turn again unto the king that sent you and say And they said the LORD Is it not because there is not a God in Israel that sent to enquire of Baalzebub Is it not because there is not a God of Ekron from that bed on which thou art gone up therefore thou shalt not come down but shalt surely but shalt surely

  • 2 Kings 1:11 - Again also he sent captain of fifty unto him another of fifty And he answered and said unto him O man of God said thus hath the king quickly Come down

  • 2 Kings 1:13 - again And he sent a captain fifty And the third fifty went up and came a captain fifty And the third and fell on his knees before Elijah and besought him and said unto him O man of God be precious I pray thee let my life I pray thee let my life thy servants fifty in thy sight

  • 2 Kings 2:13 - He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and went back and stood by the bank of Jordan

  • 2 Kings 2:18 - And when they came again to him (for he tarried at Jericho he said he said

  • 2 Kings 2:25 - from thence to mount Carmel and from thence he returned to Samaria

  • 2 Kings 3:4 - And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster and rendered king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs an hundred thousand rams with the wool

  • 2 Kings 3:27 - Then he took son his eldest that should have reigned in his stead and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall indignation And there was great against Israel and they departed from him and returned to their own land