שׁוֹבֵב
shôwbêb · H7728 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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apostate, rebel
A person or group that has turned away from someone they had pledged to serve
ExamplesJeremiah 31:22 “How long will you waver, You rebellious daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth: A woman will shelter a man.”
Jeremiah 49:4 “How you boast about the valleys! Your valley is flowing away, You backsliding daughter Who trusts in her treasures, saying, ‘Who can come against me?’
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
- סוּר çûwr · H5494 · turning away, degenerate, corrupt
- Both denote moral or religious unfaithfulness or apostasy, and can substitute for each other in describing covenant disloyalty.
- בָּגוֹד bâgôwd · H901 · treacherous
- Both describe disloyalty or unfaithfulness from different angles: שׁוֹבֵב (shôwbêb, H7728) "backsliding" refers to apostasy, turning away from a prior commitment, whereas the other word "treacherous" refers to betrayal and deceit.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unfaithful002001002027
- The word describes persistent unfaithfulness, as in Jeremiah 49:4's "backsliding daughter who trusts in her treasures" and Jeremiah 31:22's "rebellious daughter."
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7728. shobeb שׁוֺבֵב adjective backturning, apostate (perhaps for ׳מְשׁוֺ, see I.…
שׁוֺבֵב adjective backturning, apostate (perhaps for ׳מְשׁוֺ, see I. שׁוֺבָב); — as substantive, ׳לְשׁו Mic 2:4 (but read probably שׁוֺבֵינוּ our captors); feminine הַשּׁוֺבֵבָה הַבַּת Jer 31:22 (of Israel), Jer 49:4 (of Ammon).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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