Turning back
שׁוֹבָבStrong’s H7726shovav (sho-vav)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shovav is the Hebrew word usually translated “backsliding”, “apostate” and “have led away them”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.”
Meaning
- Backsliding, backturning, apostate, recusant
How it's translated
- backsliding 2
- apostate 1
- they have led away them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 3:14Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
- Jeremiah 3:22Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
- Jeremiah 50:6My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוֹבָב shovav · turning back
backsliding, backturning, apostate, recusant
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “backsliding” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BACKSLI'DING, noun
The act of apostatizing from faith or practice; a falling insensibly from religion into sin or idolatry. Jer. v.6.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.