Shub — To Return, Turn Back
The Old Testament's great repentance word — nearly a thousand occurrences of turning, returning, and being restored.
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
KJV translations: ((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.
Shub in the Bible — example verses
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”Genesis 3:19 (KJV)
“And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.”Genesis 8:3 (KJV)
“And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.”Genesis 8:7 (KJV)
“But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.”Genesis 8:9 (KJV)
“And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.”Genesis 8:12 (KJV)
“And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.”Genesis 14:7 (KJV)
“And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.”Genesis 14:16 (KJV)
“And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.”Genesis 14:17 (KJV)
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