Tᵉshûwbâh — H8666

Definition

feminine noun

a recurrence (of time or place); a reply (as returned)

1. a recurrence, an answer, return
1. return
1. completion of a year, return of a year
2. at the return (construct)
3. answer, reply

Usually translated as

be expired, return, answer

Origin

or tᵉshubâh; from H7725

• Derived from Shûwb (H7725)

Occurrences

Tᵉshûwbâh occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (2), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Job (2)

• 1 Samuel 7:17 — And his return (וּתְשֻׁבָת֤וֹ) was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
• 2 Samuel 11:1 — And it came to pass, after the year was expired (לִתְשׁוּבַ֨ת), at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
• 1 Kings 20:22 — And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return (לִתְשׁוּבַ֣ת) of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.
• 1 Kings 20:26 — And it came to pass at the return (לִתְשׁוּבַ֣ת) of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
• 1 Chronicles 20:1 — And it came to pass, that after the year was expired (תְּשׁוּבַ֨ת), at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
• 2 Chronicles 36:10 — And when the year was expired (וְלִתְשׁוּבַ֣ת), king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
• Job 21:34 — How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers (וּ֝תְשֽׁוּבֹתֵיכֶ֗ם) there remaineth falsehood?
• Job 34:36 — My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers (תְּ֝שֻׁבֹ֗ת) for wicked men.