Jeremiah 3:6
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
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Backsliding
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Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
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מְשׁוּבָה
mᵉshûwbâh · mesh-oo-baw'
7 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
apostasy
Strong's KJV usage: backsliding, turning away.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 3:6Strong's last: Hosea 14:4
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shôwbâb · sho-bawb'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
apostate, i.e. idolatrous
Strong's KJV usage: backsliding, frowardly, turn away (from margin).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 3:14Strong's last: Jeremiah 3:22
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shôwbêb · sho-babe'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
apostate, i.e. heathenish or (actually) heathen
Strong's KJV usage: backsliding.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 31:22Strong's last: Jeremiah 49:4
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çârar · saw-rar'
1 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
to turn away, i.e. (morally) be refractory
Strong's KJV usage: × away, backsliding, rebellious, revolter(-ing), slide back, stubborn, withdrew.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hosea 4:16Strong's last: Hosea 4:16
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H4878
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
H4878
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
H4878
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
H4878
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
H7726
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
H7726
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
H4878
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
H7728
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
H7728
Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
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backsliding
BACKSLI'DING, noun The act of apostatizing from faith or practice; a falling insensibly from religion into sin or idolatry. Jer. v.6.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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