Lexical Definition

‎שׁוֹבֵב‎ shôwbêb (sho-babe') backsliding ^H:A
from ‎שׁוּב‎

backsliding.

• apostate, i.e. heathenish or (actually) heathen

1) backturning, apostate, backsliding

See Greek: ἀποστρέφω · ἀτιμόω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎שׁוֺבֵב‎ adjective backturning, apostate (perhaps for ‎׳‎‎מְשׁוֺ‎, see I. ‎שׁוֺבָב‎); — as substantive, ‎׳‎‎לְשׁו‎ Mic 2:4 (but read probably ‎שׁוֺבֵינוּ‎ our captors); feminine ‎הַבַּת הַשּׁוֺבֵבָה‎ Jer 31:22 (of Israel), Jer 49:4 (of Ammon).

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