מְשׁוּבָהmᵉshûwbâh
turning back, apostasy, backturning, apostasy (Jeremiah 3:6; Proverbs 1:32; Hosea 14:5; Jeremiah 3:22; Hosea 11:7)
Pronunciation: mesh-oo-baw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4878
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 12 times in the Bible.
- Proverbs 1:32 For simpletons turn away from me—to death. Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.
- Jeremiah 2:19 Your wickedness will bring its own punishment. Your turning from me will shame you. You will see what an evil, bitter thing it is to abandon the Lord your God and not to fear him. I, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!
- Jeremiah 3:6 During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what fickle Israel has done? Like a wife who commits adultery, Israel has worshiped other gods on every hill and under every green tree.
- Jeremiah 3:8 She saw that I divorced faithless Israel because of her adultery. But that treacherous sister Judah had no fear, and now she, too, has left me and given herself to prostitution.
- Jeremiah 3:11 Then the Lord said to me, “Even faithless Israel is less guilty than treacherous Judah!
- Jeremiah 3:12 Therefore, go and give this message to Israel. This is what the Lord says: “O Israel, my faithless people, come home to me again, for I am merciful. I will not be angry with you forever.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).