1. שׁוּב
turn back, return
The corpus record — Hebrew
שֽׁוּבְךָ֙
shuwb · vb
turn back, return
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 1,073 · 34.98/10k
Senses
2. שׁוּב
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
Attestations
- שֽׁוּבְ/ךָ֙ Genesis 3:19 (BHS)
- תָּשֽׁוּב Genesis 3:19 (BHS)
- וַ/יָּשֻׁ֧בוּ Genesis 8:3 (BHS)
- וָ/שׁ֑וֹב Genesis 8:3 (BHS)
- וָ/שׁ֔וֹב Genesis 8:7 (BHS)
- וַ/תָּ֤שָׁב Genesis 8:9 (BHS)
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.