מְשׁוּבָה
mᵉshûwbâh · H4878 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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defection, apostasy, backsliding
Process by which people turn away from someone they had pledged to serve
ExamplesProverbs 1:32 “For the faithlessness of the naive will kill them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them.
Jeremiah 2:19 “Your own wickedness will correct you, And your apostasies will punish you; Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter For you to abandon the LORD your God, And the fear of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord GOD of armies.
Jeremiah 5:6 Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them, A wolf of the deserts will destroy them, A leopard is watching their cities. Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces, Because their wrongdoings are many, Their apostasies are numerous.
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wayward one
A nation that has turned away from someone they had pledged to serve
ExamplesJeremiah 3:6 Then the LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every leafy tree, and she prostituted herself there.
Jeremiah 3:8 “And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and prostituted herself also.
Jeremiah 3:11 And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has proved herself to be more righteous than treacherous Judah.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
7 occurrences in 6 groups
- הֶםtheir 2
- פְּתִיsimpleton 1
- יmy 1
- ךְyour 1
- נוּour 1
- כֶםyour 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָצַחto direct, to oversee 1
Named alongside itApposition
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- יִשְׂרָאֵלIsrael 4
- הּher 1
What it doesIt is the subject
6 occurrences in 6 groups
- הָרַגto kill 1
- יָכַחto rebuke, to reprove 1
- נָאַףto commit adultery 1
- עָצַםto be numerous 1
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
- רָבַבto increase 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָפָאto heal 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- מַעַל maʻal · H4604 · unfaithfulness, upwards, above
- Both terms denote acts of unfaithfulness or disloyalty — one "transgression, trespass," the other "backsliding, turning away" — overlapping within the sense of covenant violation or religious infidelity.
- שֵׂט sêṭ · H7846 · to go astray
- Both words denote unfaithfulness or apostasy (backsliding, revolting or turning aside), describing the same religious or covenantal infidelity.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Unfaithful002001002027
- The word denotes backsliding or apostasy, as the LORD's repeated indictment of faithless Israel's turning away and prostituting herself with other gods.
- Groups001001003004
- The word is used of Israel and Judah as national groups or peoples charged with corporate apostasy, as the LORD's contrast between faithless Israel and treacherous Judah.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4878. meshubah [מְשׁוּבָה], מְשֻׁבָה noun feminine turning back, apostasy; — absolute…
[מְשׁוּבָה], מְשֻׁבָה noun feminine turning back, apostasy; — absolute מְשֻׁבָה Jer 3:6 +; construct מְשׁוּבַת Pro 1:32; suffix מְשׁוּבָתָם Hos 14:5; plural suffix מְשׁוּבֹתֵיכֶם Jer 3:22, etc.; — backturning, apostasy, of Israel, Hos 14:5, מְשׁוּבָתִי Hos 11:7 apostasy from me (si vera lectio); of Judah Jer 2:19; Jer 3:22; Jer 5:6; Jer 8:5; Jer 14:7 (all plural) + Ezekiel 37:33 (read מְשׁוּבֹתֵיהֶם for ᵐ5 ׳מוֺשְׁ, Comm.); ׳מ נִצַחַת Jer 8:5 enduring, perpetual apostasy; also as noun concrete, apposition of following word, יִשׂ ׳מְשֻׁבָה Jer 3:6, Jer 3:8, Jer 3:11, Jer 3:12 apostate one, Israel. Of individual, מְּתָיִם מְשׁוּבַת Pro 1:32.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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