Çûwg — H5472

Definition

verb

properly, to flinch, i.e. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize)

1. to move, go, turn back, move away, backslide
1. (Qal) to backslide, prove recreant to
2. (Niphal)
1. to turn oneself away, turn back
2. to be turned or driven back, be repulsed

Usually translated as

backslider, drive, go back, turn

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• antilégō (G483)
• apostréphō (G654)
• apochōréō (G672)
• apōthéomai (G683)
• aphístēmi (G868)
• ekklínō (G1578)
• ekneúō (G1593)
• epistréphō (G1994)
• metaírō (G3332)
• metakinéō (G3334)
• metatíthēmi (G3346)
• hyperbaínō (G5233)
• phrássō (G5420)

Occurrences

Çûwg occurs 14 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Psalms (8), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (2), Zephaniah (1)

• Psalms 35:4 — Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned (יִסֹּ֣גוּ) back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
• Psalms 40:14 — Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven (יִסֹּ֣גוּ) backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
• Psalms 44:18 — Our heart is not turned (נָס֣וֹג) back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
• Psalms 53:3 — Every one of them is gone back (סָג֮): they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• Psalms 70:2 — Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned (יִסֹּ֣גוּ) backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
• Psalms 78:57 — But turned back (וַיִּסֹּ֣גוּ), and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
• Psalms 80:18 — So will not we go back (נָס֥וֹג) from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
• Psalms 129:5 — Let them all be confounded and turned (וְיִסֹּ֣גוּ) back that hate Zion.
• Proverbs 14:14 — The backslider (ס֣וּג) in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
• Isaiah 42:17 — They shall be turned (נָסֹ֤גוּ) back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
• Isaiah 50:5 — The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away (נְסוּגֹֽתִי) back.
• Jeremiah 38:22 — And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away (נָסֹ֥גוּ) back.
• Jeremiah 46:5 — Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away (נְסֹגִ֣ים) back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
• Zephaniah 1:6 — And them that are turned back (הַנְּסוֹגִ֖ים) from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.