סוּג
sûg
move away
Strong's H5472VerbHebrewTWOT 1469

סוּג (sûg) is a Hebrew verb meaning move away. It appears 14 times in 5 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5472).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1469)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1469)move away, backslide; prove recreant to; turn oneself away, turn back, be turned, driven back, be repulsed; displacing, moving back, remove, carry away; retreat, flinch, go back, apostatize; departing away, take, turn away…
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

סוּג verb: move away, backslide

Strong's H5253 נָסַג: to retreat
KJV:departing away, remove, take (hold), turn away.

Strong's H5472 סוּג: properly, to flinch, i.e. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize)
KJV:backslider, drive, go back, turn (away, back).

Strong's H7734 שׂוּג: to retreat
KJV:turn back.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Psalms 35:4Proverbs 14:14Isaiah 42:17

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