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# שׁוֹבֵב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7728

**backturning** — used 2 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/1513/7728/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוֹבֵב: adj. backturning, apostate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7728/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. backturning, apostate (perhaps for מְשׁוֹ׳, v. i. שׁוֹבָב);—as subst., לְשׁו׳ Mi 2:4 (but read prob. שׁוֹבֵינוּ our captors); f. הַבַּת הַשּׁוֹבֵבָה Je 31:22 (of Israel), 49:4 (of Ammon).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 31:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.22/#tree)

עַד־מָתַי֙ תִּתְחַמָּקִ֔ין הַבַּ֖ת הַשּֽׁוֹבֵבָ֑ה כִּֽי־בָרָ֨א יְהוָ֤ה חֲדָשָׁה֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ נְקֵבָ֖ה תְּס֥וֹבֵֽב גָּֽבֶר׃ס

*Word for word:* until when? will you.turn.hither.and.thither O daughter (the) apostate (dm) he.has.created Yahweh a.new.\[thing\] on the earth a.female she.will.surround a.man

*JPS 1917:* How long wilt thou turn away coyly, O thou backsliding daughter? For the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall court a man.

[Jeremiah 49:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.49.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.49.4/#tree)

מַה־תִּתְהַֽלְלִי֙ בָּֽעֲמָקִ֔ים זָ֣ב עִמְקֵ֔ךְ הַבַּ֖ת הַשּֽׁוֹבֵבָ֑ה הַבֹּֽטְחָה֙ בְּאֹ֣צְרֹתֶ֔יהָ מִ֖י יָב֥וֹא אֵלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* why? do.you.boast in the valleys \[is\].flowing valley your O daughter (the) apostate \[who is\].trusting in treasures her who? will.he.come against me

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that didst trust in thy treasures: 'Who shall come unto me?'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7728/): 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).