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# שׁוֹבָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7726

**backturning** — used 3 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

backturning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7726/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוֹבָב: adj. backturning, recusant, apostate Pōʿl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7726/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. backturning, recusant, apostate (perhaps for מְשׁוֹבָב, Pt. Pōʿl. Ol§ 251 b Ges§ 52 s Köi. 454);—שׁ׳ Is 57:17; pl. שׁוּבוּ בָּנִים שׁוֹבָבִים Je 3:14, 22.—שׁובבים Je 50:6 Kt שׁוֹבְבוּם 𝔊 Comm., cf. √ Pōʿl.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: apostate (3).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 3:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.22/#tree)

שׁ֚וּבוּ בָּנִ֣ים שׁוֹבָבִ֔ים אֶרְפָּ֖ה מְשׁוּבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם הִנְנוּ֙ אָתָ֣נוּ לָ֔ךְ כִּ֥י אַתָּ֖ה יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* return O.sons apostate I.will.heal apostasies your here we we.have.come to you (dm) you \[are\].Yahweh God our

*JPS 1917:* Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. — 'Here we are, we are come unto Thee; for Thou art the LORD our God.

[Isaiah 57:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.17/#tree)

בַּעֲוֺ֥ן בִּצְע֛וֹ קָצַ֥פְתִּי וְאַכֵּ֖הוּ הַסְתֵּ֣ר וְאֶקְצֹ֑ף וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ שׁוֹבָ֖ב בְּדֶ֥רֶךְ לִבּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* in the.iniquity his.unjust.gain his I.was.angry and I struck.him I.hid and I.was.angry and he.walked apostate in the.way his.own.heart his

*JPS 1917:* For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him, I hid Me and was wroth; and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7726/): 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).