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return

Meaning of “return”

Sense 1: To go, come, send, or give back; to restore, answer, or turn again. Sense 2: The act or time of coming back or recurring.

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First occurrence: Genesis 3:19

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Ezekiel 7:13
For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 7:13 · retained source text

For the seller shall not returne to that which is solde, although they were yet aliue: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof which shal not returne: neither shall any strengthen himselfe in the iniquity of his life.

1611 marginal noteHeb. thogh their life were yet among the liuing.

1611 marginal noteOr, whose life is in his iniquitie. Heb. his iniquitie.

Ezekiel 13:22
Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 13:22 · retained source text

Because with lyes yee haue made the heart of the righteous sad whom I haue not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that hee should not returne from his wicked way by promising him life:

1611 marginal noteOr, that I should saue his life. Hebr. by quickning him.

Ezekiel 16:55
When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
3 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 16:55 · retained source text

When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters shal returne to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall returne to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall returne to your former estate.

Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 18:23 · retained source text

Haue I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die, saith the LORD God? And not that he should returne from his wayes, and liue?

1611 marginal noteChap. 33.11.

Ezekiel 21:5
That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 21:5 · retained source text

That all flesh may know, that I the LORD haue drawen foorth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not returne any more.

Ezekiel 21:30
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 21:30 · retained source text

Shall I cause it to returne into his sheath? I will iudge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy natiuitie.

1611 marginal noteOr, cause to it to returne.

Ezekiel 29:14
And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 29:14 · retained source text

And I will bring againe the captiuitie of Egypt, and will cause them to returne into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation, and they shall be there a base kingdome.

1611 marginal noteOr, birth.

1611 marginal noteHeb. low.

Ezekiel 35:9
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 35:9 · retained source text

I will make thee perpetuall desolations, & thy cities shall not returne, and ye shal know that I am the LORD

Ezekiel 46:9
¶ But when the people of the land shall come before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 46:9 · retained source text

¶ But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD, in the solemne feasts, he that entreth in by the way of the North gate to worship, shall goe out by the way of the South gate: and he that entreth by the way of the South gate, shall goe forth by the way of the North gate: he shall not returne by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall goe foorth ouer against it.

Ezekiel 46:17
But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 46:17 · retained source text

But if hee giue a gift of his inheritance to one of his seruants, then it shalbe his to the yeere of libertie: after, it shall returne to the Prince, but his inheritance shalbe his sonnes for them.

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