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# מְשׁוּבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4878

**turning back** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

turning back [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4878/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְשׁוּבָה²: n.f. turning back, apostasy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4878/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. turning back, apostasy;—abs. מְשֻׁבָה Je 3:6 +; cstr. מְשׁוּבַת Pr 1:32; sf. מְשׁוּבָתָם Ho 14:5; pl. sf. מְשׁוּבֹתֵיכֶם Je 3:22, etc.;—backturning, apostasy, of Isr., Ho 14:5, מְשׁוּבָתִי 11:7 apostasy from me (si vera l.); of Judah Je 2:19; 3:22; 5:6; 8:5; 14:7 (all pl.) + Ez 37:23 (read מְשׁוּבֹתֵיהֶם for מוֹשְׁ׳, 𝔊 Comm.); מ׳ נִצַּחַת Je 8:5 enduring, perpetual apostasy; also as n. concr., appos. of foll. word, מְשֻׁבָה יִשׂ׳ Je 3:6, 8, 11, 12 apostate one, Israel. Of individual, מְשׁוּבַת פְּתָיִם Pr 1:32.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: apostasies (4); \[the\] apostate one (3); apostasy (3).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 1:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.32/#tree)

כִּ֤י מְשׁוּבַ֣ת פְּתָיִ֣ם תַּֽהַרְגֵ֑ם וְשַׁלְוַ֖ת כְּסִילִ֣ים תְּאַבְּדֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[the\].turning.away of.naive.people it will.ruin.them and.\[the\] security of.fools it will.destroy.them

*JPS 1917:* For the waywardness of the thoughtless shall slay them, and the confidence of fools shall destroy them.

[Hosea 14:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.14.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.14.5/#tree)

אֶרְפָּא֙ מְשׁ֣וּבָתָ֔ם אֹהֲבֵ֖ם נְדָבָ֑ה כִּ֛י שָׁ֥ב אַפִּ֖י מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* I.will.heal apostasy their I will.love.them voluntariness (dm) it.has.turned.back anger my from him

*JPS 1917:* I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for Mine anger is turned away from him.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4878/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).