תְּשׁוּבָה
te.shu.vah
“turn”
Definition
a recurrence (of time or place); a reply (as returned)
or תְּשֻׁבָה; from H7725 (שׁוּב);
- a recurrence, an answer, return 1a) return 1a1) completion of a year, return of a year 1b) at the return (construct) 1c) answer, reply
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
תְּשׁוּבָה appears 8 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.
Afterward, the prophet approached the king of Israel and said, “Go and strengthen your position, and take note what you must do, for in the spring the king of Aram will come up against you.”
In the spring, Ben-hadad mobilized the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.
In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
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