Strong's H7734: שׂוּג (sûwg) Meaning

Quick Definition

to turn back

Strong's Definition

to retreat

Derivation: a primitive root;

KJV Usage: turn back.

TWOT Reference: 1469

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) to move, go, turn back, turn away

1a) (Niphal) to turn oneself away

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

שׂוּג (sug) — to turn back. 1) to move, go, turn back, turn away 1a) (Niphal) to turn oneself away

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

סוג (H5253 · H5472 · H5473 · H7734)

verb · סִיג

Move | verb nif

Collocation: סוג אָחֹור

to step back, to retreat = action by which humans take one or more steps backwards, ◄ usually because of a dangerous situation in front of them and against their will; ► resulting in shame

2SA 1:22 · PSA 35:4 · PSA 40:15 · PSA 70:3 · PSA 129:5 · ISA 42:17 · ISA 50:5 · JER 38:22 · JER 46:5

Move | verb hof

Collocation: סוג אָחֹור

to cause to step back, to cause to retreat = causative action by which humans are forced to take one or more steps backwards, ◄ usually because of a dangerous situation in front of them and against their will; ► resulting in shame; ≈ only used in a figurative sense relating to failing justice

ISA 59:14

Space | verb hif

Collocation: סוג גְּבוּל

to move boundaries literally: to cause a boundary to step back; = action by which humans move the signs marking the boundary of their land in order to enlarge their territory

DEU 19:14 · DEU 27:17 · JOB 24:2 · PRO 22:28 · PRO 23:10 · HOS 5:10

Unfaithful | verb nif, verb qal

to slide back, to go astray literally: to step back; hence: = process by which humans gradually lose their loyalty towards a deity

PSA 44:19 · PSA 53:4 · PSA 78:57 · PSA 80:19 · PRO 14:14 · ISA 59:13 · ZEP 1:6

verb

Arrange | verb qal

to be encircled = state in which an object is surrounded with a carefully arranged set of other objects in the shape of a circle

SNG 7:3

¹ MIC 2:6 MT | RSV NIV NJPS NJB NRSV ESV "overtake" = נשׂג ² MIC 6:14 MT סוג RSV NRSV ESV "put away" NIV NJB CEV "store up" GNT "carry things off" | REB "come to labour" = נשׂג

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[סוּג, seldom שׂוּג] vb. move away, backslide Qal backslide, prove recreant to י׳

Niph. refl. turn oneself away, turn back

be turned or driven back, be repulsed

Hiph. usu. of displacing, moving back a boundary mark

remove, carry away

Hoph. and justice is driven back

base

Bible Occurrences (1)

1:22

H7734 שׂוּג (sûwg) soog