Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
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Acts 20:3
And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
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שׁוּב
shûwb · shoob
241 times translated as this KJV form1,105 total Strong's occurrences
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
Strong's KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) × again, (cause to) answer ( again), × in any case (wise), × at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, × certainly, come again (back), × consider, continually, convert, deliver (again), deny, draw back, fetch home again, × fro, get (oneself) (back) again, × give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, × needs, be past, × pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, × surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 3:19Strong's last: Malachi 3:18
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hypostréphō · hoop-os-tref'-o
5 times translated as this KJV form35 total Strong's occurrences
to turn under (behind), i.e. to return (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--come again, return (again, back again), turn back (again).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 8:39Strong's last: Acts 20:3
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epistréphō · ep-ee-stref'-o
4 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
to revert (literally, figuratively or morally)
Strong's KJV usage: :--come (go) again, convert, (re-)turn (about, again).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 10:13Strong's last: Luke 17:31
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tᵉshûwbâh · tesh-oo-baw'
3 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
a recurrence (of time or place); a reply (as returned)
Strong's KJV usage: answer, be expired, return.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 7:17Strong's last: 1 Kings 20:26
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anakámptō · an-ak-amp'-to
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to turn back
Strong's KJV usage: :--(re-)turn.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 2:12Strong's last: Acts 18:21
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analýō · an-al-oo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to break up, i.e. depart (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--depart, return.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 12:36Strong's last: Luke 12:36
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anastréphō · an-as-tref'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
to overturn; also to return; by implication, to busy oneself, i.e. remain, live
Strong's KJV usage: :--abide, behave self, have conversation, live, overthrow, pass, return, be used.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 15:16Strong's last: Acts 15:16
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pânâh · paw-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form135 total Strong's occurrences
to turn; by implication, to face, i.e. appear, look, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: appear, at (even-) tide, behold, cast out, come on, × corner, dawning, empty, go away, lie, look, mark, pass away, prepare, regard, (have) respect (to), (re-) turn (aside, away, back, face, self), × right (early).
Strong's first: Joshua 22:4Strong's last: Joshua 22:4
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They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
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They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
H7725
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.
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Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
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If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
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If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
H7725
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
H7725
Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
H7725
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
H7725
And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
H7725
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
H7725
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
H7725
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
H7725
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
H7725
Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
H7725
Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
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For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
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But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
H7725
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
H7725
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
H7725
The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
H7725
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
H7725
For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
H7725
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
H7725
Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
English meaning and historical usage.
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return
RETURN, verb intransitive [Latin torno.]
1. To come or go back to the same place. The gentleman goes from the country to London and returns, or the citizen of London rides into the country and returns. The blood propelled from the heart, passes through the arteries to the extremities of the body, and returns through the veins. Some servants are good to go on errands, but not good to return
2. To come to the same state; as, to return from bondage to a state of freedom.
3. To answer.
He said, and thus the queen of heaven return'd.
4. To come again; to revisit.
Thou to mankind be good and friendly still, and oft return
5. To appear or begin again after a periodical revolution.
With the year seasons return but not to me returns day -
6. To show fresh signs of mercy.
RETURN, O Lord, deliver my soul. Psalms 6:4.
To return to God, to return from wickedness, to repent of sin or wandering from duty.
RETURN', verb transitive
1. To bring, carry or send back; as, to return a borrowed book; to return a hired horse.
2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
3. To give in recompense or requital.
In any wise, return him a trespass-offering. 1 Samuel 6:3.
The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thy own head. 1 Kings 2:32.
4. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer.
5. To tell, relate or communicate.
And Moses returned the words of the people to the Lord.
Exodus 19:8.
6. To retort; to recriminate.
If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am.
7. To render an account, usually an official account to a superior. Officers of the army and navy return to the commander the number of men in companies, regiments, etc.; they return the number of men sick or capable of duty; they return the quantity of ammunition, provisions, etc.
8. To render back to a tribunal or to an office; as, to return a writ or an execution.
9. To report officially; as, an officer returns his proceedings on the back of a writ or precept.
10. To send; to transmit; to convey.
Instead of a ship, he should levy money and return the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use.
RETURN', noun
1. The act of coming or going back to the same place.
Takes little journeys and makes quick returns.
2. The act of sending back; as the return of a borrowed book or of money lent.
3. The act of putting in the former place.
4. Retrogression; the act of moving back.
5. The act or process of coming back to a former state; as the return of health.
6. Revolution; a periodical coming to the same point; as the return of the sun to the tropic of Cancer.
7. Periodical renewal; as the return of the seasons or of the year.
8. Repayment; reimbursement in kind or in something equivalent, for money expended or advanced, or for labor. One occupation gives quick returns; in others, the returns are slow. The returns of the cargo were in gold. The farmer has returns in his crops.
9. Profit; advantage.
From these few hours we spend in prayer, the return is great.
10. Remittance; payment from a distant place.
11. Repayment; retribution; requital.
Is no return due from a grateful breast?
12. Act of restoring or giving back; restitution.
13. Either of the adjoining sides of the front of a house or ground-plot, is called a return side.
14. In law, the rendering back or delivery of a writ, precept or execution, to the proper officer or court; or the certificate of the officer executing it, indorsed. We call the transmission of the writ to the proper officer or court, a return; and we give the same name to the certificate or official account of the officer's service or proceedings. The sheriff or his subordinate officers make return of all writs and precepts. We use the same language for the sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
15. A day in bank. The day on which the defendant is ordered to appear in court, and the sheriff is to bring in the writ and report his proceedings, is called the return of the writ.
16. In military and naval affairs, an official account, report or statement rendered to the commander; as the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, ammunition, etc.
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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