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

• Psalms 81:14 how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!
• Psalms 85:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.
• Psalms 85:3 You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.
• Psalms 85:4 Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
• Psalms 85:6 Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?
• Psalms 85:8 I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.
• Psalms 89:43 You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.
• Psalms 90:3 You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
• Psalms 90:13 Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
• Psalms 94:2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud.
• Psalms 94:15 Surely judgment will again be righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
• Psalms 94:23 He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The LORD our God will destroy them.
• Psalms 104:9 You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
• Psalms 104:29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
• Psalms 106:23 So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
• Psalms 116:7 Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.
• Psalms 116:12 How can I repay the LORD for all His goodness to me?
• Psalms 119:59 I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
• Psalms 119:79 May those who fear You turn to me, those who know Your testimonies.
• Psalms 126:1 A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
• Psalms 126:4 Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.
• Psalms 132:10 For the sake of Your servant David, do not reject Your anointed one.
• Psalms 132:11 The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.
• Psalms 146:4 When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
• Proverbs 1:23 If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
• Proverbs 2:19 None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
• Proverbs 3:28 Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”—when you already have the means.
• Proverbs 12:14 By fruitful speech a man is filled with good things, and the work of his hands returns to him.
• Proverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
• Proverbs 17:13 If anyone returns evil for good, evil will never leave his house.
• Proverbs 18:13 He who answers a matter before he hears it—this is folly and disgrace to him.
• Proverbs 19:24 The slacker buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth.
• Proverbs 20:26 A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
• Proverbs 22:21 to show you true and reliable words, that you may soundly answer those who sent you?
• Proverbs 24:12 If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?
• Proverbs 24:18 or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.
• Proverbs 24:26 An honest answer given is like a kiss on the lips.
• Proverbs 24:29 Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
• Proverbs 25:10 lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your infamy never go away.
• Proverbs 25:13 Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a trustworthy messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.
• Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
• Proverbs 26:15 The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.
• Proverbs 26:16 The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.
• Proverbs 26:27 He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.
• Proverbs 27:11 Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I can answer him who taunts me.
• Proverbs 29:8 Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.
• Proverbs 30:30 a lion, mighty among beasts, refusing to retreat before anything;
• Ecclesiastes 1:6 The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.
• Ecclesiastes 1:7 All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.
• Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
• Ecclesiastes 4:1 Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
• Ecclesiastes 4:7 Again, I saw futility under the sun.
• Ecclesiastes 5:15 As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
• Ecclesiastes 9:11 I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
• Ecclesiastes 12:2 before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
• Ecclesiastes 12:7 before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• Song of Solomon 6:13 Come back, come back, O Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may gaze upon you. Why do you look at the Shulammite, as on the dance of Mahanaim?
• Isaiah 1:25 I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.
• Isaiah 1:26 I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
• Isaiah 1:27 Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.