Hebrew adjective · H7726
שׁוֹבָב
shobabsho-bawb'
turning back
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shôwbâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7726is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7726
apostate, i.e. idolatrous
The King James renders it: backsliding, frowardly, turn away (from margin).
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
shobab is rendered "turning back". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 57:17I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.
Isaiah 57:17שׁוֹבָ֖ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- backsliding2
- apostate1
- they have led away them1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שׁוֹפָר | shophar | trumpet | Uses72 |
| שׁוֹעֵר | shoer | gatekeeper | Uses37 |
| שׁוֹק | shoq | leg | Uses19 |
| שׁוֹא | sho | ravage | Uses13 |
| שׁוֹט | shot | whip | Uses11 |
| שׁוֹעַ | shoa | rich | Uses3 |
| שׁוֹבֵב | shobeb | backsliding | Uses3 |
| שׁוֹלָל | sholal | barefoot | Uses3 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- שׁוֹבָ֖ב1
- שֽׁוֹבְב֑וּם1
- שׁוֹבָבִים֙1
- שׁוֹבָבִ֔ים1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine plural2HAampa
- adjective · masculine singular1HAamsa
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVpp3cp/Sp3mp
Isaiah
one use
I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.
- שׁוֹבָ֖בshovavadjective · masculine singulartagged: apostate
Jeremiah
three uses
“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
- שׁוֹבָבִים֙shoavimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: backsliding
“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
- שׁוֹבָבִ֔יםshoavimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: backsliding
My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.
- שֽׁוֹבְב֑וּםshoevimverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they have led away them
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.