שׁוּב

shuv

Hebrew H7725 Verb 1,057 occurrences in 950 verses
שׁוּב to return: return

1. to return, turn back

a. (Qal)

1. to turn back, return

a. to turn back

b. to return, come or go back

c. to return unto, go back, come back

d. of dying

e. of human relations (fig)

f. of spiritual relations (fig)

1. to turn back (from God), apostatise

2. to turn away (of God)

3. to turn back (to God), repent

4. turn back (from evil)

g. of inanimate things

h. in repetition

b. (Polel)

1. to bring back

2. to restore, refresh, repair (fig)

3. to lead away (enticingly)

4. to show turning, apostatise

c. (Pual) restored (participle)

d. (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back

1. to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment

2. to bring back, refresh, restore

3. to bring back, report to, answer

4. to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense)

5. to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse

6. to turn away (face), turn toward

7. to turn against

8. to bring back to mind

9. to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke

e. (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back

f. (Pulal) brought back

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Concordance 950 verses

  1. Judges 8:33 וַיָּשׁ֙וּבוּ֙

    And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.

  2. Judges 9:56 וַיָּ֣שֶׁב

    In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.

  3. Judges 9:57 הֵשִׁ֥יב

    And God also brought all the wickedness of the men of Shechem back upon their own heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.

  4. Judges 11:8 שַׁ֣בְנוּ

    They answered Jephthah, “This is why we now turn to you, that you may go with us, fight the Ammonites, and become leader over all of us who live in Gilead.”

  5. Judges 11:9 מְשִׁיבִ֨ים

    But Jephthah asked them, “If you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me, will I really be your leader?”

  6. Judges 11:13 הָשִׁ֥יבָה

    The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”

  7. Judges 11:31 בְּשׁוּבִ֥י

    then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”

  8. Judges 11:35 לָשֽׁוּב׃

    As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”

  9. Judges 11:39 וַתָּ֙שָׁב֙

    After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel

  10. Judges 14:8 וַיָּ֤שָׁב

    When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.

  11. Judges 15:19 וַתָּ֥שָׁב

    So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.

  12. Judges 17:3 וַיָּ֛שֶׁבאֲשִׁיבֶ֥נּוּ

    And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”

  13. Judges 17:4 וַיָּ֥שֶׁב

    So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.

  14. Judges 18:26 וַיָּ֥שָׁב

    So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.

  15. Judges 19:3 לַהֲשִׁיבוֹ

    her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.

  16. Judges 19:7 וַיָּ֖שָׁב

    The man got up to depart, but his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night.

  17. Judges 20:48 שָׁ֣בוּ

    And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.

  18. Judges 21:14 וַיָּ֤שָׁב

    And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.

  19. Judges 21:23 וַיָּשׁ֙וּבוּ֙

    The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.

  20. Ruth 1:6 וַתָּ֖שָׁב

    When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.

  21. Ruth 1:7 לָשׁ֖וּב

    Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.

  22. Ruth 1:8 שֹּׁ֔בְנָה

    Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.

  23. Ruth 1:10 נָשׁ֖וּב

    and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”

  24. Ruth 1:11 שֹׁ֣בְנָה

    But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?

  25. Ruth 1:12 שֹׁ֤בְנָה

    Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,

  26. Ruth 1:15 שָׁ֣בָהשׁ֖וּבִי

    “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”

  27. Ruth 1:16 לָשׁ֣וּב

    But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

  28. Ruth 1:21 הֱשִׁיבַ֣נִי

    I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”

  29. Ruth 1:22 וַתָּ֣שָׁבהַשָּׁ֖בָה

    So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

  30. Ruth 2:6 הַשָּׁ֥בָה

    The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.

  31. Ruth 4:3 הַשָּׁ֖בָה

    And he said to the kinsman-redeemer, “Naomi, who has returned from the land of Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.

  32. Ruth 4:15 לְמֵשִׁ֣יב

    He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”

  33. 1 Samuel 1:19 וַיָּשֻׁ֛בוּ

    The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.

  34. 1 Samuel 3:5 שׁ֣וּב

    He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” “I did not call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down.

  35. 1 Samuel 3:6 שׁ֥וּב

    Once again the LORD called, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” “My son, I did not call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.”

  36. 1 Samuel 5:3 וַיָּשִׁ֥בוּ

    When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.

  37. 1 Samuel 5:11 וְיָשֹׁ֣ב

    Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it.

  38. 1 Samuel 6:3 הָשֵׁ֥בתָּשִׁ֛יבוּ

    They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”

  39. 1 Samuel 6:4 נָשִׁ֣יב

    “What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.

  40. 1 Samuel 6:7 וַהֲשֵׁיבֹתֶ֧ם

    Now, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.

  41. 1 Samuel 6:8 הֲשֵׁבֹתֶ֥ם

    Take the ark of the LORD, set it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending Him as a guilt offering. Then send the ark on its way,

  42. 1 Samuel 6:16 וַיָּשֻׁ֥בוּ

    And when the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they returned to Ekron that same day.

  43. 1 Samuel 6:17 הֵשִׁ֧יבוּ

    As a guilt offering to the LORD, the Philistines had sent back one gold tumor for each city: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.

  44. 1 Samuel 6:21 הֵשִׁ֤בוּ

    So they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up with you.”

  45. 1 Samuel 7:3 שָׁבִים֙

    Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

  46. 1 Samuel 7:14 וַתָּשֹׁ֣בְנָה

    The cities from Ekron to Gath, which the Philistines had taken, were restored to Israel, who also delivered the surrounding territory from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between the Israelites and the Amorites.

  47. 1 Samuel 9:5 וְנָשׁ֑וּבָה

    When they reached the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant, “Come, let us go back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us.”

  48. 1 Samuel 12:3 וְאָשִׁ֖יב

    Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.”

  49. 1 Samuel 14:27 וַיָּ֤שֶׁב

    Jonathan, however, had not heard that his father had charged the people with the oath. So he reached out the end of the staff in his hand, dipped it into the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.

  50. 1 Samuel 15:11 שָׁב֙

    “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.

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