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title: שׁוֹבֵב — backturning · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׁוֹבֵב (7728), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: backturning. BDB 1906: adj. backturning, apostate. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׁוֹבֵב

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«שׁוֹבֵב» 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 7728 · **BDB:** שׁוֹבֵב

### Glosses

apostate (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

backturning [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7728/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. backturning, apostate [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7728/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. backturning, apostate (perhaps for מְשׁוֹ׳, v. i. שׁוֹבָב);—as subst., לְשׁו׳ Mi 2:4 (but read prob. שׁוֹבֵינוּ our captors); f. הַבַּת הַשּׁוֹבֵבָה Je 31:22 (of Israel), 49:4 (of Ammon).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 «שׁוֹבֵב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7728/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 31:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.22/)

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עַד־מָתַי֙ תִּתְחַמָּקִ֔ין הַבַּ֖ת הַשּֽׁוֹבֵבָ֑ה כִּֽי־בָרָ֨א יְהוָ֤ה חֲדָשָׁה֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ נְקֵבָ֖ה תְּס֥וֹבֵֽב גָּֽבֶר׃ס

*Word for word:* until when? will you.turn.hither.and.thither O daughter (the) apostate (dm) he.has.created Yahweh a.new.\[thing\] on the earth a.female she.will.surround a.man

*JPS 1917:* How long wilt thou turn away coyly, O thou backsliding daughter? For the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall court a man.

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[Jeremiah 49:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.49.4/)

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מַה־תִּתְהַֽלְלִי֙ בָּֽעֲמָקִ֔ים זָ֣ב עִמְקֵ֔ךְ הַבַּ֖ת הַשּֽׁוֹבֵבָ֑ה הַבֹּֽטְחָה֙ בְּאֹ֣צְרֹתֶ֔יהָ מִ֖י יָב֥וֹא אֵלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* why? do.you.boast in the valleys \[is\].flowing valley your O daughter (the) apostate \[who is\].trusting in treasures her who? will.he.come against me

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that didst trust in thy treasures: 'Who shall come unto me?'

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