סוּגçûwg

move away, backslide

Pronunciation: soog · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5472

Meanings

Qal: backslide, prove recreant to ׳ י (Psalms 53:4; Psalms 80:19; Proverbs 14:14)

Niph`al

1. turn oneself away, turn back

b. = prove faithless (as Qal) (Jeremiah 38:22; Zephaniah 1:6; Isaiah 59:13)

2. be truned or driven back, be repulsed (Jeremiah 46:5; Isaiah 42:17; Psalms 35:4)

Hiph`il

1. usually of displacing, moving back a boundary mark (Deuteronomy 19:14; Proverbs 22:10; Job 24:2)

2. remove carry away (Micah 6:14)

Hoph`al: is driven back (Isaiah 59:14)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 14 times in the Bible.

  • Psalms 35:4 Bring shame and disgrace on those trying to kill me; turn them back and humiliate those who want to harm me.
  • Psalms 40:14 May those who try to destroy me be humiliated and put to shame. May those who take delight in my trouble be turned back in disgrace.
  • Psalms 44:18 Our hearts have not deserted you. We have not strayed from your path.
  • Psalms 53:3 But no, all have turned away; all have become corrupt. No one does good, not a single one!
  • Psalms 70:2 May those who try to kill me be humiliated and put to shame. May those who take delight in my trouble be turned back in disgrace.
  • Psalms 78:57 They turned back and were as faithless as their parents. They were as undependable as a crooked bow.
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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).