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סוּג

sug · turn back, draw back

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5472 · appears 14 times in the Bible

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What it means

sug (סוּג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “turn back, draw back”.

To turn back, to draw back: to turn away from a path or from someone.

How to say it

sug

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. To go backward, move away from God, or flee.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • turned ×6
  • turn ×4
  • let them turn back ×2
  • one who turns away ×1
  • turning ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Psalms 35:4

    Let them be ashamed and humiliated, those who seek my soul; let them turn back and be abashed, those who plot my harm.

  • Psalms 40:14

    Let them be ashamed and abashed together, those who seek my soul to sweep it away; let them turn back and be humiliated, those who desire my harm.

  • Psalms 44:18

    Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from your path,

  • Psalms 53:3

    All of them have turned back; together they have become perverted; there is no one who does good, there is not even one.

  • Psalms 70:2

    Let them be ashamed and abashed, those who seek my soul; let them turn back and be humiliated, those who desire my harm.

  • Psalms 78:57

    And they turned back and dealt treacherously like their fathers; they were twisted like a bow of deceit.

  • Psalms 80:18

    And we will not turn back from you; you will give us life, and on your name we will call.

  • Psalms 129:5

    May they be put to shame and turned back, all who hate Zion.

  • Proverbs 14:14

    From his ways the one who turns away in heart will be filled, and from what is his a good man.

  • Isaiah 42:17

    They will be turned back, they will be utterly put to shame, those who trust in the carved image, who say to the cast image, ‘You are our gods.’

  • Isaiah 50:5

    Adonai YHWH has opened my ear, and I did not rebel; I did not turn back.

  • Jeremiah 38:22

    Look, all the women who are left in the house of the king of Judah are being brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon, and they are saying, ‘They have incited you and prevailed over you, your men of peace; your feet have sunk in the mire; they have turned back.’

  • Jeremiah 46:5

    Why have I seen it? They are dismayed, turning back, and their mighty men are beaten down, and they have fled in flight and do not turn around; terror on every side, declares YHWH.

  • Zephaniah 1:6

    and those who turn back from following YHWH, and who have not sought YHWH nor consulted him.”