Backsliding
שׁוֹבֵבStrong’s H7728shovev (sho-vev)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shovev is the Hebrew word usually translated “apostate”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.”
Meaning
- Backturning, apostate, backsliding
How it's translated
- apostate 2
- to an apostate 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Micah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 49:4Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
- Micah 2:4In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוֹבֵב shovev · backsliding
backturning, apostate, backsliding
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.