שׁוֹבֵב
shovev · turning away, faithless
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7728 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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shovev (שׁוֹבֵב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “turning away, faithless”.
One who leaves the right path.
How to say it
sho·vev
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
- Turning away and disloyal.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- faithless ×2
- wayward ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Jeremiah 31:22
How long will you wander here and there, faithless daughter? For YHWH has created a new thing in the land: a woman will surround a man.”
- Jeremiah 49:4
Why do you boast of the valleys? Your valley is flowing away, wayward daughter, who trusts in her treasures: “Who will come against me?”
- Micah 2:4
On that day one will take up against you a poem, and lament with a bitter lament and say, ‘We are utterly ruined; the portion of my people he changes; how he removes it from me! To the faithless he divides our fields.’