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. 2 Samuel 15:29 וַיָּ֨שֶׁב

    So Zadok and Abiathar returned the ark of God to Jerusalem and stayed there.

  2. 2 Samuel 15:34 תָּשׁ֗וּב

    But you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me if you return to the city and say to Absalom: ‘I will be your servant, my king; in the past I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant.’

  3. 2 Samuel 16:3 יָשִׁ֤יבוּ

    “Where is your master’s grandson?” asked the king. And Ziba answered, “Indeed, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he has said, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore to me the kingdom of my grandfather.’”

  4. 2 Samuel 16:8 הֵשִׁיב֩

    The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”

  5. 2 Samuel 16:12 וְהֵשִׁ֨יב

    Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”

  6. 2 Samuel 17:3 וְאָשִׁ֥יבָהכְּשׁ֣וּב

    and bring all the people back to you as a bride returning to her husband. You seek the life of only one man; then all the people will be at peace.”

  7. 2 Samuel 17:20 וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ

    When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

  8. 2 Samuel 18:16 וַיָּ֣שָׁב

    Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab had restrained them.

  9. 2 Samuel 19:10 לְהָשִׁ֥יב

    But Absalom, the man we anointed over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about restoring the king?”

  10. 2 Samuel 19:11 לְהָשִׁ֥יב

    Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?

  11. 2 Samuel 19:12 לְהָשִׁ֥יב

    You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’

  12. 2 Samuel 19:14 שׁ֥וּב

    So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”

  13. 2 Samuel 19:15 וַיָּ֣שָׁב

    So the king returned, and when he arrived at the Jordan, the men of Judah came to Gilgal to meet him and escort him across the Jordan.

  14. 2 Samuel 19:37 יָֽשָׁב־

    Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”

  15. 2 Samuel 19:39 וַיָּ֖שָׁב

    So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king crossed over. The king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and Barzillai returned home.

  16. 2 Samuel 19:43 לְהָשִׁ֣יב

    “We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah pressed even harder than the men of Israel.

  17. 2 Samuel 20:22 שָׁ֥ב

    Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

  18. 2 Samuel 22:21 יָשִׁ֥יב

    The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

  19. 2 Samuel 22:25 וַיָּ֧שֶׁב

    So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.

  20. 2 Samuel 22:38 אָשׁ֖וּב

    I pursued my enemies and destroyed them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.

  21. 2 Samuel 23:10 יָשֻׁ֥בוּ

    but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.

  22. 2 Samuel 24:13 אָשִׁ֥יב

    So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

  23. 1 Kings 2:16 תָּשִׁ֖בִי

    So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.

  24. 1 Kings 2:17 יָשִׁ֖יב

    Adonijah replied, “Please speak to King Solomon, since he will not turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”

  25. 1 Kings 2:20 תָּ֖שֶׁבאָשִׁ֖יב

    “I have just one small request of you,” she said. “Do not deny me.” “Make your request, my mother,” the king replied, “for I will not deny you.”

  26. 1 Kings 2:30 וַיָּ֨שֶׁב

    And Benaiah entered the tent of the LORD and said to Joab, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” But Joab replied, “No, I will die here.” So Benaiah relayed the message to the king, saying, “This is how Joab answered me.”

  27. 1 Kings 2:32 וְהֵשִׁיב֩

    The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

  28. 1 Kings 2:33 וְשָׁ֤בוּ

    Their blood will come back upon the heads of Joab and his descendants forever; but for David, his descendants, his house, and his throne, there shall be peace from the LORD forever.”

  29. 1 Kings 2:41 וַיָּשֹֽׁב׃

    When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned,

  30. 1 Kings 2:44 וְהֵשִׁ֧יב

    The king also said, “You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the LORD will bring your evil back upon your head.

  31. 1 Kings 8:33 וְשָׁ֤בוּ

    When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,

  32. 1 Kings 8:34 וַהֲשֵֽׁבֹתָם֙

    then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.

  33. 1 Kings 8:35 יְשׁוּב֖וּן

    When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

  34. 1 Kings 8:47 וְהֵשִׁ֙יבוּ֙וְשָׁ֣בוּ׀

    and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’

  35. 1 Kings 8:48 וְשָׁ֣בוּ

    and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

  36. 1 Kings 9:6 שׁ֨וֹבתְּשֻׁב֜וּן

    But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,

  37. 1 Kings 12:5 וְשׁ֣וּבוּ

    Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.

  38. 1 Kings 12:6 לְהָשִׁ֥יב

    Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.

  39. 1 Kings 12:9 וְנָשִׁ֥יב

    He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

  40. 1 Kings 12:12 שׁ֥וּבוּ

    After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”

  41. 1 Kings 12:16 וַיָּשִׁ֣בוּ

    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,

  42. 1 Kings 12:20 שָׁ֣ב

    When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.

  43. 1 Kings 12:21 לְהָשִׁיב֙

    And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

  44. 1 Kings 12:24 שׁ֚וּבוּוַיָּשֻׁ֥בוּ

    that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this word is from Me.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.

  45. 1 Kings 12:26 תָּשׁ֥וּב

    Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David.

  46. 1 Kings 12:27 וְ֠שָׁבוְשָׁ֖בוּ

    If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

  47. 1 Kings 13:4 לַהֲשִׁיבָ֥הּ

    Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.

  48. 1 Kings 13:6 וְתָשֹׁ֥בוַתָּ֤שָׁב

    Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.

  49. 1 Kings 13:9 תָשׁ֔וּב

    For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”

  50. 1 Kings 13:10 שָׁ֣ב

    So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.

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