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title: שׁוֹבָב — backturning · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׁוֹבָב (7726), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: backturning. BDB 1906: adj. backturning, recusant, apostate Pōʿl. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׁוֹבָב

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«שׁוֹבָב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **backturning** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 7726 · **BDB:** שׁוֹבָב

### Glosses

apostate (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

backturning [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7726/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. backturning, recusant, apostate Pōʿl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7726/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. backturning, recusant, apostate (perhaps for מְשׁוֹבָב, Pt. Pōʿl. Ol§ 251 b Ges§ 52 s Köi. 454);—שׁ׳ Is 57:17; pl. שׁוּבוּ בָּנִים שׁוֹבָבִים Je 3:14, 22.—שׁובבים Je 50:6 Kt שׁוֹבְבוּם 𝔊 Comm., cf. √ Pōʿl.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שׁוֹבָב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7726/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 3:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.22/)

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שׁ֚וּבוּ בָּנִ֣ים שׁוֹבָבִ֔ים אֶרְפָּ֖ה מְשׁוּבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם הִנְנוּ֙ אָתָ֣נוּ לָ֔ךְ כִּ֥י אַתָּ֖ה יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* return O.sons apostate I.will.heal apostasies your here we we.have.come to you (dm) you \[are\].Yahweh God our

*JPS 1917:* Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. — 'Here we are, we are come unto Thee; for Thou art the LORD our God.

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[Isaiah 57:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.17/)

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בַּעֲוֺ֥ן בִּצְע֛וֹ קָצַ֥פְתִּי וְאַכֵּ֖הוּ הַסְתֵּ֣ר וְאֶקְצֹ֑ף וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ שׁוֹבָ֖ב בְּדֶ֥רֶךְ לִבּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* in the.iniquity his.unjust.gain his I.was.angry and I struck.him I.hid and I.was.angry and he.walked apostate in the.way his.own.heart his

*JPS 1917:* For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him, I hid Me and was wroth; and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

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