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Lexicon :: Strong's H7728 - šôḇēḇ

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שׁוֹבֵב
Transliteration
šôḇēḇ
Pronunciation
sho-babe'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2340d

Strong’s Definitions

שׁוֹבֵב shôwbêb, sho-babe'; from H7725; apostate, i.e. heathenish or (actually) heathen:—backsliding.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's H7728 in the following manner: backsliding (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's H7728 in the following manner: backsliding (2x).
  1. backturning, apostate, backsliding

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שׁוֹבֵב shôwbêb, sho-babe'; from H7725; apostate, i.e. heathenish or (actually) heathen:—backsliding.
STRONGS H7728: Abbreviations
שׁוֺבֵב adjective backturning, apostate (perhaps for מְשׁוֺ׳, see I. שׁוֺבָב); — as substantive, לְשׁו׳ Micah 2:4 (but read probably שׁוֺבֵינוּ our captors); feminine הַבַּת הַשּׁוֺבֵבָה Jeremiah 31:22 (of Israel), Jeremiah 49:4 (of Ammon).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Jeremiah

31:22; 49:4

Micah

2:4

H7728

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7728 matches the Hebrew שׁוֹבֵב (šôḇēḇ),
which occurs 3 times in 3 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:22 - How long will you waver,
O faithless daughter?
For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth:
a woman encircles a man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:4 - Why do you boast of your valleys,[fn]
O faithless daughter,
who trusted in her treasures, saying,
‘Who will come against me?’
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:4 - In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you
and moan bitterly,
and say, “We are utterly ruined;
he changes the portion of my people;
how he removes it from me!
To an apostate he allots our fields.”
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