# shuv (שׁוּב)

pronounced: shoov


**To return or turn back — the biblical verb behind the later religious noun teshuvah**

## In Scripture

> and return to Yahweh your God, and obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
> — Deuteronomy 30:2 (The covenant call to come home to God with the whole heart)

> let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
> — Isaiah 55:7 (Return directed toward the God whose mercy and pardon are already announced)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/shuv/