שׁוּב
shuv
turn back
Strong's H7725VerbHebrewTWOT 2340

שׁוּב (shuv) is a Hebrew verb meaning turn back. It appears 1073 times in 38 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H7725).

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Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2340)

Range of meaning (TWOT 2340)turn back, return; come, go back, return unto, turn, apostatize, turn away, repent; bring back, restore, refresh, repair, lead away, shew turning; cause to return, put back, draw back, give back, relinguish, give in payment, bring…
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

שׁוּב verb: turn back, return

Strong's H7725 שׁוּב: 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
KJV:((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) × again, (cause to) answer (again), × in any case (wise), × at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, × certainly, come again (back), × consider, continually, convert, deliver (again), deny, draw back, fetch home again, × fro, get (oneself) (back) again, × give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, × needs, be past, × 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, say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, × surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.

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

Genesis 3:19Exodus 4:7Leviticus 13:16

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