שׂוּגsûwg

move away, backslide

Pronunciation: soog · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7734

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 1 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 1:22 The bow of Jonathan was powerful, and the sword of Saul did its mighty work. They shed the blood of their enemies and pierced the bodies of mighty heroes.

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).