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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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Jeremiah 8:4
¶ Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jeremiah 8:4 · retained source text

¶ Moreouer thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the LORD, Shall they fall, and not arise? shall hee turne away, and not returne?

Jeremiah 12:15
And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jeremiah 12:15 · retained source text

And it shall come to passe after that I haue plucked them out, I will returne, and haue compassion on them, and will bring againe euery man to his heritage, and euery man to his land.

Jeremiah 15:7
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 15:7 · retained source text

And I will fanne them with a fanne in the gates of the land: I will bereaue them of children, I wil destroy my people, sith they returne not from their waies.

1611 marginal noteOr, whatsoeuer is deare.

Jeremiah 15:19
¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
3 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jeremiah 15:19 · retained source text

¶ Therfore thus saith the LORD; If thou returne, then will I bring thee againe, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them returne vnto thee, but returne not thou vnto them.

Jeremiah 18:11
¶ Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 18:11 · retained source text

¶ Now therefore goe to, speake to the men of Iudah, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame euill against you, and deuise a deuice against you: returne ye now euery one from his euill way, and make your waies and your doings good.

1611 marginal note2.Kin. 17.13. chap. 7.3. and 25.5. and 35.15.

Jeremiah 22:10
¶ Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 22:10 · retained source text

¶ Weepe ye not for the dead, neither bemoane him, but weepe sore for him that goeth away: for he shall returne no more, nor see his natiue countrey.

Jeremiah 22:11
For thus saith the Lord touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jeremiah 22:11 · retained source text

For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum, the sonne of Iosiah king of Iudah which reigned in stead of Iosiah his father, which went forth out of this place, He shall not returne thither any more.

Jeremiah 22:27
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 22:27 · retained source text

But to the land whereunto they desire to returne, thither shall they not returne.

1611 marginal noteHebr. lift vp their minde.

Jeremiah 23:14
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 23:14 · retained source text

I haue seene also in the prophets of Ierusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walke in lies: they strengthen also the hands of euill doers, that none doeth returne from his wickednesse: they are all of them vnto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

1611 marginal noteOr, filthinesse.

1611 marginal noteIsa. 1.9.

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