Hebrew verb · H5472
סוּג
sugsoog
to turn
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çûwg
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5472is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5472
properly, to flinch, i.e. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize)
The King James renders it: backslider, drive, go back, turn (away, back).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sug is rendered "to turn". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 35:4May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.
Psalms 35:4יִסֹּ֣גוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's fourteen uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- may they be turned back3
- and they may be turned back1
- and they turned back1
- backslidden of1
- he turns back1
- I have turned back1
- it had turned back1
- they have turned1
- they will be turned back1
- those have turned back1
- turned back1
- we will turn back1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יִסֹּ֣גוּ3
- הַנְּסוֹגִ֖ים1
- וְיִסֹּ֣גוּ1
- וַיִּסֹּ֣גוּ1
- נָסֹ֤גוּ1
- נָסֹ֥גוּ1
- נְסֹגִ֣ים1
- נָס֣וֹג1
- נָס֥וֹג1
- נְסוּגֹֽתִי׃1
- סָג֮1
- ס֣וּג1
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVNi3mp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVNp3cp
- HC/VNu3mp1HC/VNu3mp
- Hc/VNw3mp1Hc/VNw3mp
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine plural1HTd/VNrmpa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVNp1cs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNp3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine plural1HVNrmpa
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HVqcc
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural1HVqi1cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
Psalms
eight uses
May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.
- יִסֹּ֣גוּyisoguverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: may they be turned back
May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
- יִסֹּ֣גוּyisoguverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: may they be turned back
Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
- נָס֣וֹגnasogverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had turned back
All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
- סָג֮sagverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he turns back
May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
- יִסֹּ֣גוּyisoguverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: may they be turned back
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
- וַיִּסֹּ֣גוּvaiyisoguHc/VNw3mptagged: and they turned back
Then we will not turn away from You; revive us, and we will call on Your name.
- נָס֥וֹגnasogverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will turn back
May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
- וְיִסֹּ֣גוּveyisoguHC/VNu3mptagged: and they may be turned back
Proverbs
one use
The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
- ס֣וּגsugverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: backslidden of
Isaiah
two uses
But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.
- נָסֹ֤גוּnasoguverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will be turned back
The Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.
- נְסוּגֹֽתִי׃nesugotiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have turned back
Jeremiah
two uses
All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you—those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’
- נָסֹ֥גוּnasoguverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have turned
Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.
- נְסֹגִ֣יםnesogimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: turned back
Zephaniah
one use
and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
- הַנְּסוֹגִ֖יםhanesogimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those have turned back
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.