שׁוֹבָב
shôwbâb · H7726 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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apostate
A person or group that has turned away from someone they had pledged to serve
ExamplesIsaiah 57:17 “Because of the wrongful act of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him; I hid My face and was angry, And he went on turning away, in the way of his heart.
Jeremiah 3:14 ‘Return, you faithless sons,’ declares the LORD; ‘For I am a master to you, And I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, And bring you to Zion.’
Jeremiah 3:22 “Return, you faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to You; For You are the LORD our God.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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
- בָּגוֹד bâgôwd · H901 · treacherous
- Backsliding or turning away (שׁוֹבָב (shôwbâb, H7726)) and treacherous behavior (the other word) overlap in contexts of covenant or relational betrayal.
- סוּר çûwr · H5494 · turning away, degenerate, corrupt
- Both denote apostasy or unfaithfulness in a religious or covenantal sense, different words for closely related ideas of turning away from faithfulness.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Unfaithful002001002027
- The word describes persistent covenant-breaking, as in Jeremiah 3:14's address to "faithless sons" and Isaiah 57:17's image of one who "went on turning away, in the way of his heart."
- Names of People003001007
- This domain belongs to this word's homograph, the personal name Shobab (a son of David, 2 Samuel 5:14), rather than to this adjective describing faithless backsliding.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7726. shobab I. שׁוֺבָב adjective backturning, recusant, apostate (perhaps for…
I. שׁוֺבָב adjective backturning, recusant, apostate (perhaps for מְשׁוֺבָב, Participle Po`l. Ol§ 251 b Ges§ 52s Köi. 454); — ׳שׁ Isa 57:17; plural שׁוֺבָבִים בָּנִים שׁוּבוּ Jer 3:14, Jer 3:22. — שׁובבים Jer 50:6 Kt < Qr ᵐ5 שׁוֺבְבוּם Comm., compare √
Po`l.
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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