Strong's Concordance H7725

Original Word: שׁוּב
Transliteration: shûwb
Phonetic Spelling: shoob
a primitive root; 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; ((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.

Usages throughout the bible

Amos 1:6 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away H7725 the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:

Amos 1:8 - And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn H7725 mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.

Amos 1:9 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away H7725 the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:

Amos 1:11 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away H7725 the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

Amos 1:13 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away H7725 the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

Amos 2:1 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away H7725 the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

Amos 2:4 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away H7725 the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

Amos 2:6 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away H7725 the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

Amos 4:6 - And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned H7725 unto me, saith the LORD.

Amos 4:8 - So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned H7725 unto me, saith the LORD.

Amos 4:9 - I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned H7725 unto me, saith the LORD.

Amos 4:10 - I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned H7725 unto me, saith the LORD.

Amos 4:11 - I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned H7725 unto me, saith the LORD.

Amos 9:14 - And I will bring again H7725 the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Obadiah 1:15 - For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return H7725 upon thine own head.

Jonah 1:13 - Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring H7725 it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.

Jonah 3:8 - But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn H7725 every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

Jonah 3:9 - Who can tell if God will turn H7725 and repent, and turn away H7725 from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Jonah 3:10 - And God saw their works, that they turned H7725 from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

Micah 1:7 - And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return H7725 to the hire of an harlot.

Micah 2:4 - In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away H7725 he hath divided our fields.

Micah 2:8 - Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse H7725 from war.

Micah 5:3 - Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return H7725 unto the children of Israel.

Micah 7:19 - He will turn again, H7725 he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Nahum 2:2 - For the LORD hath turned away H7725 the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.

Habakkuk 2:1 - I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer H7725 when I am reproved.

Zephaniah 2:7 - And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away H7725 their captivity.

Zephaniah 3:20 - At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back H7725 your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.

Zechariah 1:3 - Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn H7725 ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn H7725 unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 1:4 - Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn H7725 ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

Zechariah 1:6 - But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned H7725 and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

Zechariah 1:16 - Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned H7725 to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

Zechariah 4:1 - And the angel that talked with me came again, H7725 and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,

Zechariah 5:1 - Then I turned, H7725 and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.

Zechariah 6:1 - And I turned, H7725 and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.

Zechariah 7:14 - But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: H7725 for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

Zechariah 8:3 - Thus saith the LORD; I am returned H7725 unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.

Zechariah 8:15 - So again H7725 have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

Zechariah 9:8 - And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: H7725 and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

Zechariah 9:12 - Turn H7725 you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render H7725 double unto thee;

Zechariah 10:9 - And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. H7725

Zechariah 10:10 - I will bring them again H7725 also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them.

Zechariah 13:7 - Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn H7725 mine hand upon the little ones.

Malachi 1:4 - Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return H7725 and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

Malachi 2:6 - The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn H7725 many away H7725 from iniquity.

Malachi 3:7 - Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return H7725 unto me, and I will return H7725 unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? H7725

Malachi 3:18 - Then shall ye return, H7725 and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Malachi 4:6 - And he shall turn H7725 the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.