שׁוּב shûwb

Meaning

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

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

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Job 30:23 Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
• Job 31:14 what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?
• Job 32:14 But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.
• Job 33:5 Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
• Job 33:25 then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.
• Job 33:26 He prays to God and finds favor; he sees God’s face and shouts for joy, and God restores His righteousness to that man.
• Job 33:30 to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
• Job 33:32 But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.
• Job 34:15 all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
• Job 35:4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
• Job 36:10 He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity.
• Job 39:4 Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.
• Job 39:12 Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
• Job 39:22 He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword.
• Job 40:4 “Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
• Job 42:10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
• Psalms 6:4 Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.
• Psalms 6:10 All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.
• Psalms 7:7 Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.
• Psalms 7:12 If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
• Psalms 7:16 His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
• Psalms 9:3 When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.
• Psalms 9:17 The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
• Psalms 14:7 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the LORD restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
• Psalms 18:20 The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
• Psalms 18:24 So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
• Psalms 18:37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.
• Psalms 19:7 The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
• Psalms 22:27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
• Psalms 23:3 He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
• Psalms 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
• Psalms 28:4 Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.
• Psalms 35:13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
• Psalms 35:17 How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
• Psalms 44:10 You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
• Psalms 51:12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.
• Psalms 51:13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.
• Psalms 53:6 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
• Psalms 54:5 He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.
• Psalms 56:9 Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.
• Psalms 59:6 They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.
• Psalms 59:14 They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.
• Psalms 60:1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!
• Psalms 68:22 The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,
• Psalms 69:4 Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me—my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.
• Psalms 70:3 May those who say, “Aha, aha!” retreat because of their shame.
• Psalms 71:20 Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
• Psalms 72:10 May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.
• Psalms 73:10 So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.
• Psalms 74:11 Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!
• Psalms 74:21 Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.
• Psalms 78:34 When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
• Psalms 78:38 And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
• Psalms 78:39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
• Psalms 78:41 Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
• Psalms 79:12 Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
• Psalms 80:3 Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
• Psalms 80:7 Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
• Psalms 80:14 Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
• Psalms 80:19 Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.