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

2 Samuel 15:29 - Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried H7725 the ark of God again H7725 to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.

2 Samuel 15:34 - But if thou return H7725 to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.

2 Samuel 16:3 - And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore H7725 me the kingdom of my father.

2 Samuel 16:8 - The LORD hath returned H7725 upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.

2 Samuel 16:12 - It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite H7725 me good for his cursing this day.

2 Samuel 17:3 - And I will bring back H7725 all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: H7725 so all the people shall be in peace.

2 Samuel 17:20 - And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned H7725 to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 18:16 - And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned H7725 from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.

2 Samuel 19:10 - And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing H7725 the king back? H7725

2 Samuel 19:11 - And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring H7725 the king back H7725 to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.

2 Samuel 19:12 - Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back H7725 the king?

2 Samuel 19:14 - And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return H7725 thou, and all thy servants.

2 Samuel 19:15 - So the king returned, H7725 and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.

2 Samuel 19:37 - Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, H7725 that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.

2 Samuel 19:39 - And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned H7725 unto his own place.

2 Samuel 19:43 - And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back H7725 our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 20:22 - Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned H7725 to Jerusalem unto the king.

2 Samuel 22:21 - The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed H7725 me.

2 Samuel 22:25 - Therefore the LORD hath recompensed H7725 me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

2 Samuel 22:38 - I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again H7725 until I had consumed them.

2 Samuel 23:10 - He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned H7725 after him only to spoil.

2 Samuel 24:13 - So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return H7725 to him that sent me.

1 Kings 2:16 - And now I ask one petition of thee, deny H7725 me not. And she said unto him, Say on.

1 Kings 2:17 - And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say H7725 thee nay,) H7725 that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.

1 Kings 2:20 - Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say H7725 me not nay. H7725 And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say H7725 thee nay. H7725

1 Kings 2:30 - And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought H7725 the king word again, H7725 saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.

1 Kings 2:32 - And the LORD shall return H7725 his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

1 Kings 2:33 - Their blood shall therefore return H7725 upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.

1 Kings 2:41 - And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again. H7725

1 Kings 2:44 - The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return H7725 thy wickedness upon thine own head;

1 Kings 8:33 - When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again H7725 to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:

1 Kings 8:34 - Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again H7725 unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.

1 Kings 8:35 - When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn H7725 from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

1 Kings 8:47 - Yet if they shall bethink H7725 themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, H7725 and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

1 Kings 8:48 - And so return H7725 unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

1 Kings 9:6 - But if ye shall at all H7725 turn H7725 from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

1 Kings 12:5 - And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again H7725 to me. And the people departed.

1 Kings 12:6 - And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may H7725 answer this people?

1 Kings 12:9 - And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may H7725 answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?

1 Kings 12:12 - So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again H7725 the third day.

1 Kings 12:16 - So H7725 when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.

1 Kings 12:20 - And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, H7725 that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

1 Kings 12:21 - And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring H7725 the kingdom again H7725 to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

1 Kings 12:24 - Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return H7725 every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned H7725 to depart, according to the word of the LORD.

1 Kings 12:26 - And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return H7725 to the house of David:

1 Kings 12:27 - If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again H7725 unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again H7725 to Rehoboam king of Judah.

1 Kings 13:4 - And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again H7725 to him.

1 Kings 13:6 - And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. H7725 And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, H7725 and became as it was before.

1 Kings 13:9 - For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again H7725 by the same way that thou camest.

1 Kings 13:10 - So he went another way, and returned H7725 not by the way that he came to Bethel.