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 Kings 14:25 - He restored H7725 the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.

2 Kings 14:28 - Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered H7725 Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 15:20 - And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, H7725 and stayed not there in the land.

2 Kings 16:6 - At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered H7725 Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.

2 Kings 17:3 - Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave H7725 him presents.

2 Kings 17:13 - Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn H7725 ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

2 Kings 18:14 - And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return H7725 from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 18:24 - How then wilt thou turn away H7725 the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

2 Kings 19:7 - Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return H7725 to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

2 Kings 19:8 - So Rabshakeh returned, H7725 and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

2 Kings 19:9 - And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again H7725 unto Hezekiah, saying,

2 Kings 19:28 - Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back H7725 by the way by which thou camest.

2 Kings 19:33 - By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, H7725 and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.

2 Kings 19:36 - So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, H7725 and dwelt at Nineveh.

2 Kings 20:5 - Turn again, H7725 and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 20:9 - And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back H7725 ten degrees?

2 Kings 20:10 - And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return H7725 backward ten degrees.

2 Kings 20:11 - And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought H7725 the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

2 Kings 21:3 - For he built up again H7725 the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

2 Kings 22:9 - And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought H7725 the king word again, H7725 and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 22:20 - Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought H7725 the king word again. H7725

2 Kings 23:20 - And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned H7725 to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 23:25 - And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned H7725 to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

2 Kings 23:26 - Notwithstanding the LORD turned H7725 not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

2 Kings 24:1 - In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned H7725 and rebelled against him.

1 Chronicles 19:5 - Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return. H7725

1 Chronicles 20:3 - And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned H7725 to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 21:12 - Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again H7725 to him that sent me.

1 Chronicles 21:20 - And Ornan turned back, H7725 and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

1 Chronicles 21:27 - And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up H7725 his sword again H7725 into the sheath thereof.

2 Chronicles 6:23 - Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting H7725 the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

2 Chronicles 6:24 - And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return H7725 and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;

2 Chronicles 6:25 - Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again H7725 unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

2 Chronicles 6:26 - When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn H7725 from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;

2 Chronicles 6:37 - Yet if they bethink H7725 themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn H7725 and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

2 Chronicles 6:38 - If they return H7725 to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

2 Chronicles 6:42 - O LORD God, turn not away H7725 the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

2 Chronicles 7:14 - If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn H7725 from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:19 - But if ye turn away, H7725 and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

2 Chronicles 10:2 - And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned H7725 out of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 10:5 - And he said unto them, Come again H7725 unto me after three days. And the people departed.

2 Chronicles 10:6 - And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return H7725 answer to this people?

2 Chronicles 10:9 - And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return H7725 answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?

2 Chronicles 10:12 - So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again H7725 to me on the third day.

2 Chronicles 10:16 - And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered H7725 the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

2 Chronicles 11:1 - And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring H7725 the kingdom again H7725 to Rehoboam.

2 Chronicles 11:4 - Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return H7725 every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned H7725 from going against Jeroboam.

2 Chronicles 12:11 - And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again H7725 into the guard chamber.

2 Chronicles 12:12 - And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned H7725 from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.

2 Chronicles 14:15 - They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned H7725 to Jerusalem.