tuv · return, answer

What it means

tuv (תּוּב) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “return, answer”.

To return; in its causative form, to give back, to answer (Aramaic). Related to the Hebrew "shuv".

How to say it

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. For something lost or far away to come back to someone, like his reason or his honor.
2. To give an answer, or give back something received.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• returned ×5
• answer you ×1
• replied ×1
• they should return ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ezra×3
• Daniel×5

• Ezra 5:5

  But the eye of their Elah was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease until the report should go to Darius and then they should return a letter about this.

• Ezra 5:11

  And thus they returned an answer to us, saying: ‘We are the servants of the Elah of the heavens and the earth, and we are building the house that was built many years before this; and a great king of Israel built it and finished it.

• Ezra 6:5

  And also the utensils of the house of Elah, of gold and of silver, which Nebuchadnezzar brought out from the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, let them be returned and go to the temple that is in Jerusalem, to its place; and you shall deposit them in the house of Elah.”

• Daniel 2:14

  Then Daniel replied with counsel and prudence to Arioch, the chief of the guard of the king, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.

• Daniel 3:16

  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “We have no need to answer you about this matter.

• Daniel 4:34

  And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to the heavens, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed Illaya, and I praised and glorified the one who lives forever, whose dominion is an eternal dominion, and his kingdom is with generation and generation.

• Daniel 4:36

  At that time my understanding returned to me, and for the honor of my kingdom, my majesty and my splendor returned to me; and my advisers and my nobles sought me, and I was reestablished over my kingdom, and extraordinary greatness was added to me.

And 1 more times.