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To return

תּוּבStrong’s H8421

tuv

Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tuv is the Aramaic word usually translated “it returned”, “send back” and “sent back to us”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.

“Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:”
Daniel 2:14 KJV
Meaning
  1. To return, come back(P'al) to return, come back · (Aphel)
How it's translated
  • it returned 3
  • they will send back 1
  • they sent back to us 1
  • let them send back 1
  • he sent back 1
  • to send back to you 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 4
  • Ezra 3

2 books in all.

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Aramaic dictionary

תּוּב tuv · to return

: return 1) to return, come back 1a) (P'al) to return, come back 1b) (Aphel) 1b1) to restore, give back, answer 1b2) to return

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “return” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

RETURN, verb intransitive

[Latin torno.]

  1. To come or go back to the same place.
  2. To come to the same state; as, to return from bondage to a state of freedom.
  3. To answer.
  4. To come again; to revisit.
All definitions and other forms of “return”
  1. To appear or begin again after a periodical revolution.
  2. To show fresh signs of mercy.“RETURN, O Lord, deliver my soul” Psalms 6:4

RETURN', verb transitive

  1. To bring, carry or send back; as, to return a borrowed book; to return a hired horse.
  2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
  3. To give in recompense or requital.“The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thy own head” 1 Kings 2:44
  4. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer.
  5. To tell, relate or communicate.“And Moses returned the words of the people to the Lord” Exodus 19:8
  6. To retort; to recriminate.
  7. To render an account, usually an official account to a superior.
  8. To render back to a tribunal or to an office; as, to return a writ or an execution.
  9. To report officially; as, an officer returns his proceedings on the back of a writ or precept.
  10. To send; to transmit; to convey.

RETURN', noun

  1. The act of coming or going back to the same place.
  2. The act of sending back; as the return of a borrowed book or of money lent.
  3. The act of putting in the former place.
  4. Retrogression; the act of moving back.
  5. The act or process of coming back to a former state; as the return of health.
  6. Revolution; a periodical coming to the same point; as the return of the sun to the tropic of Cancer.
  7. Periodical renewal; as the return of the seasons or of the year.
  8. Repayment; reimbursement in kind or in something equivalent, for money expended or advanced, or for labor.
  9. Profit; advantage.
  10. Remittance; payment from a distant place.
  11. Repayment; retribution; requital.
  12. Act of restoring or giving back; restitution.
  13. Either of the adjoining sides of the front of a house or ground-plot, is called a return side.
  14. In law, the rendering back or delivery of a writ, precept or execution, to the proper officer or court; or the certificate of the officer executing it, indorsed.
  15. A day in bank.
  16. In military and naval affairs, an official account, report or statement rendered to the commander; as the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, ammunition, etc.

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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.