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# תְּשׁוּבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8666

**return** — used 8 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

return [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8666/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּשׁוּבָה: n.f. return, answer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8666/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. return, answer;— sf. וּתְשֻׁבָתוֹ הָרָמָ֫תָה 1 S 7:17 and his return was (= he returned) to Rama. especially cstr. לִתְשׁוּבַת הַשָּׁנָה at the return of the year, i.e. of spring, 2 S 11:1; 1 K 20:22, 26; 2 Ch 36:10, לְעֵת תְּשׁ׳ הַשּׁ׳ 1 Ch 20:1 (‖ 2 S 11:1). answer, pl. abs. תְּשֻׁבֹת Jb 34:36, sf. תְּשׁוּבֹתֵיכֶם 21:34.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the return (4); answers (2); of the return (1).

## In the verses

[Job 21:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.34/#tree)

וְ֭אֵיךְ תְּנַחֲמ֣וּנִי הָ֑בֶל וּ֝תְשֽׁוּבֹתֵיכֶ֗ם נִשְׁאַר־מָֽעַל׃ס

*Word for word:* and how? will you.comfort.me vanity and answers your it.remains unfaithfulness

*JPS 1917:* How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?

[Job 34:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.36/#tree)

אָבִ֗י יִבָּחֵ֣ן אִיּ֣וֹב עַד־נֶ֑צַח עַל־תְּ֝שֻׁבֹ֗ת בְּאַנְשֵׁי־אָֽוֶן׃

*Word for word:* would.that! he.will.be.tested Job until perpetuity on answers among people of.wickedness

*JPS 1917:* Would that Job were tried unto the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8666/): 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).