שׁוֹבֵב
sho.vev
“backsliding”
Definition
apostate, i.e. heathenish or (actually) heathen
from H7725 (שׁוּב);
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Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
H:A
Hebrew Adjective
Occurrences
שׁוֹבֵב appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
How long will you wander,O faithless daughter?For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”
Why do you boast of your valleys—your valleys so fruitful,O faithless daughter?You trust in your riches and say,‘Who can come against me?’
In that day they will take up a proverb against youand taunt you with this bitter lamentation:‘We are utterly ruined!He has changed the portion of my people.How He has removed it from me!He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
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