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. 1 Kings 13:16 לָשׁ֥וּב

    But the man replied, “I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

  2. 1 Kings 13:17 תָשׁ֣וּב

    For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”

  3. 1 Kings 13:18 הֲשִׁבֵ֤הוּ

    Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,

  4. 1 Kings 13:19 וַיָּ֣שָׁב

    but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.

  5. 1 Kings 13:20 הֱשִׁיבֽוֹ׃

    While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,

  6. 1 Kings 13:22 וַתָּ֗שָׁב

    but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.’”

  7. 1 Kings 13:23 הֱשִׁיבֽוֹ׃

    And after the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet who had brought him back saddled the donkey for him.

  8. 1 Kings 13:26 הֱשִׁיב֣וֹ

    When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”

  9. 1 Kings 13:29 וַיְשִׁיבֵ֑הוּ

    So the old prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.

  10. 1 Kings 13:33 שָׁ֥בוַ֠יָּשָׁב

    Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.

  11. 1 Kings 14:28 וֶהֱשִׁיב֖וּם

    And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would bear the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.

  12. 1 Kings 17:21 תָּ֥שָׁב

    Then he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this boy’s life return to him!”

  13. 1 Kings 17:22 וַתָּ֧שָׁב

    And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived.

  14. 1 Kings 18:43 שֻׁ֖ב

    “Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”

  15. 1 Kings 19:6 וַיָּ֖שָׁב

    And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.

  16. 1 Kings 19:7 וַיָּשָׁב֩

    A second time the angel of the LORD returned and touched him, saying, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.”

  17. 1 Kings 19:15 שׁ֥וּב

    Then the LORD said to him, “Go back by the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you arrive, you are to anoint Hazael as king over Aram.

  18. 1 Kings 19:20 שׁ֔וּב

    So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”

  19. 1 Kings 19:21 וַיָּ֨שָׁב

    So Elisha turned back from him, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. With the oxen’s equipment, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow and serve Elijah.

  20. 1 Kings 20:5 וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙

    The messengers came back and said, “This is what Ben-hadad says: ‘I have sent to you to demand your silver, your gold, your wives, and your children.

  21. 1 Kings 20:9 וַיְשִׁבֻ֖הוּ

    So Ahab answered the messengers of Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you demanded of your servant the first time I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’” So the messengers departed and relayed the message to Ben-hadad.

  22. 1 Kings 20:34 אָשִׁ֗יב

    Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I release you,” Ahab replied. So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.

  23. 1 Kings 22:17 יָשׁ֥וּבוּ

    So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”

  24. 1 Kings 22:26 וַהֲשִׁיבֵ֖הוּ

    And the king of Israel declared, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,

  25. 1 Kings 22:28 שׁ֤וֹבתָּשׁוּב֙

    But Micaiah replied, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take heed, all you people!”

  26. 1 Kings 22:33 וַיָּשׁ֖וּבוּ

    And when the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

  27. 2 Kings 1:5 וַיָּשׁ֥וּבוּשַׁבְתֶּֽם׃

    When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned?”

  28. 2 Kings 1:6 שׁוּבוּ֮

    They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’”

  29. 2 Kings 1:11 וַיָּ֜שָׁב

    So the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. And the captain said to Elijah, “Man of God, the king declares, ‘Come down at once!’”

  30. 2 Kings 1:13 וַיָּ֗שָׁב

    So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, “Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants please be precious in your sight.

  31. 2 Kings 2:13 וַיָּ֥שָׁב

    Elisha also picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah, and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

  32. 2 Kings 2:18 וַיָּשֻׁ֣בוּ

    When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”

  33. 2 Kings 2:25 שָׁ֥ב

    And Elisha went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

  34. 2 Kings 3:4 וְהֵשִׁ֤יב

    Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

  35. 2 Kings 3:27 וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ

    So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him, and offered him as a burnt offering on the city wall. And there was great fury against the Israelites, so they withdrew and returned to their own land.

  36. 2 Kings 4:22 וְאָשֽׁוּבָה׃

    And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”

  37. 2 Kings 4:31 וַיָּ֤שָׁב

    Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”

  38. 2 Kings 4:35 וַיָּ֜שָׁב

    Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

  39. 2 Kings 4:38 שָׁ֤ב

    When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”

  40. 2 Kings 5:10 וְיָשֹׁ֧ב

    Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”

  41. 2 Kings 5:14 וַיָּ֣שָׁב

    So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.

  42. 2 Kings 5:15 וַיָּשָׁב֩

    Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, “Now I know for sure that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”

  43. 2 Kings 7:8 וַיָּשֻׁ֗בוּ

    When the lepers reached the edge of the camp, they went into a tent to eat and drink. Then they carried off the silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid them. On returning, they entered another tent, carried off some items from there, and hid them.

  44. 2 Kings 7:15 וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙

    And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.

  45. 2 Kings 8:3 וַתָּ֥שָׁב

    At the end of seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to the king to appeal for her house and her land.

  46. 2 Kings 8:6 הָשֵׁ֤יב

    When the king asked the woman, she confirmed it. So the king appointed for her an officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, along with all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the country until now.”

  47. 2 Kings 8:29 וַיָּשָׁב֩

    So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.

  48. 2 Kings 9:15 וַיָּשָׁב֩

    but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) So Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then do not let anyone escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”

  49. 2 Kings 9:18 שָֽׁב׃

    So a horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”

  50. 2 Kings 9:20 שָׁ֑ב

    Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the charioteer is driving like Jehu son of Nimshi —he is driving like a madman!”

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