Word

תְּשׁוּבָה

tᵉshûwbâh · H8666 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

return, coming back

Literally: to turn; hence: action by which humans move back to a location where they have been before

Examples
1 Samuel 7:17 Then he would make his return to Ramah, because his house was there, and there he also judged Israel; and there he built an altar to the LORD.
spring

Literally: "return of the year"; the beginning of the new year, which takes place in the springtime; regarded as the time when kings start military campaigns

Examples
2 Samuel 11:1 Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they brought destruction on the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed in Jerusalem.
1 Kings 20:22 Then the prophet approached the king of Israel and said to him, “Go, show yourself courageous and be aware and see what you have to do; for at the turn of the year the king of Aram will march against you.”
1 Kings 20:26 So at the turn of the year Ben-hadad mustered the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
answer

Literally: return; hence: action by which humans respond verbally to a question or situation

Examples
Job 21:34 “So how dare you give me empty comfort? For your answers remain nothing but falsehood!”
Job 34:36 ‘Oh that Job were tested to the limit, Because he answers like sinners.

How it’s used In 4 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 3 groups

שָׁנֶהyear 5
הוּhis 1
כֶםyour 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אִישׁman, person, each 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 7

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עֵתtime, moment, period 1

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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Semantic domains 3 entries

Move002002001012: This noun denotes a physical return, as in 1 Samuel 7:17's account of Samuel making his return to Ramah, where his house was.
Time002002002010: The noun also denotes a recurring point in the year, as in 1 Kings 20:22's warning that at the turn of the year the king of Aram would march against Israel.
Speak002004001009008: This domain reflects a further sense of a spoken answer or reply, found elsewhere in this word's range of occurrences rather than being illustrated by the citations sampled here.

Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שׁוּב shûwb · H7725 · to turn around, to turn (someone) around · 1057×מְשׁוּבָה mᵉshûwbâh · H4878 · defection, apostasy, backsliding · 12×תּוּב tûwb · H8421 · answer, restore, return · 8×תְּשׁוּבָהtᵉshûwbâh · H8666שׁוֹבָב shôwbâb · H7726 · apostate · 3×שׁוֹבֵב shôwbêb · H7728 · apostate, rebel · 2×שׁוּבָה shûwbâh · H7729 · returning, repentance · 1×שִׁיבָה shîybâh · H7870 · to restore the fortunes (of a nation), staying, remaining · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8666. teshubah [תְּשׁוּבָה] noun feminine return, answer; — 1 suffix הָרָמָ֫תָה…

H8666. teshubah
[תְּשׁוּבָה] noun feminine return, answer; —
1 suffix הָרָמָ֫תָה וּתְשֻׁבָתוֺ 1Sa 7:17 and his return was (=he returned) to Rama.
2 especially construct הַשָּׁנָה לִתְשׁוּבַת at the return of the year, i.e. of spring, 2Sa 11:1; 1Ki 20:22, 1Ki 20:26; 2Ch 36:10, תְּשׁ ׳לְעֵת ׳הַשּׁ 1Ch 20:1 (|| 2Sa 11:1).
3 answer, plural absolute תְּשֻׁבֹת Job 34:36, suffix תְּשׁוּבֹתֵיכֶם Job 21:34.
שׁוּבָאֵל see שְׁבוּאֵל (compare Sabean proper name תֿובאל OsZMG xix (1865), 198 n. Hal485 DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 16).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Move1 occurrence Time5 occurrences Speak2 occurrences

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