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title: תְּשׁוּבָה — return · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תְּשׁוּבָה (8666), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: return. BDB 1906: n.f. return, answer. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תְּשׁוּבָה

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«תְּשׁוּבָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **return** — 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:** 8 times · **Key:** 8666 · **BDB:** תְּשׁוּבָה

### Glosses

the.return (4); answers (2); of.the.return (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

return [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8666/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. return, answer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8666/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. return, answer;— sf. וּתְשֻׁבָתוֹ הָרָמָ֫תָה 1 S 7:17 and his return was (= he returned) to Rama. especially cstr. לִתְשׁוּבַת הַשָּׁנָה at the return of the year, i.e. of spring, 2 S 11:1; 1 K 20:22, 26; 2 Ch 36:10, לְעֵת תְּשׁ׳ הַשּׁ׳ 1 Ch 20:1 (‖ 2 S 11:1). answer, pl. abs. תְּשֻׁבֹת Jb 34:36, sf. תְּשׁוּבֹתֵיכֶם 21:34.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תְּשׁוּבָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8666/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 21:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.34/)

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וְ֭אֵיךְ תְּנַחֲמ֣וּנִי הָ֑בֶל וּ֝תְשֽׁוּבֹתֵיכֶ֗ם נִשְׁאַר־מָֽעַל׃ס

*Word for word:* and how? will you.comfort.me vanity and answers your it.remains unfaithfulness

*JPS 1917:* How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?

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[Job 34:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.36/)

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אָבִ֗י יִבָּחֵ֣ן אִיּ֣וֹב עַד־נֶ֑צַח עַל־תְּ֝שֻׁבֹ֗ת בְּאַנְשֵׁי־אָֽוֶן׃

*Word for word:* would.that! he.will.be.tested Job until perpetuity on answers among people of.wickedness

*JPS 1917:* Would that Job were tried unto the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

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