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'Returned' in the Bible

but the dove could not yet find a place to rest, so it returned to Noah on the ark, since water still covered the land. Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back into the ark with him.

The dove returned to him in the evening, but in its beak there was an olive leaf that it had plucked! So Noah knew that the flood waters had decreased on the land.

As soon as he finished talking to Abraham, the LORD left and Abraham returned to where he had been sitting.

So Abimelech took some sheep and oxen, and some male and female servants, gave them to Abraham, returned his wife Sarah to him,

So after they had made a covenant in Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to Philistine territory.

After this, Abraham returned to his servants and they set out together for Beer-sheba, where Abraham settled.

Just after Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left his father Isaac, Jacob's brother Esau returned from hunting,

Later, the messengers returned to Jacob and reported, "We went to your brother Esau. He's now coming to meet you and he has 400 men with him!"

Because Jacob learned that Shechem had dishonored his daughter Dinah while his sons were still out with their cattle on the open range, he remained silent until they returned.

Later, when Reuben returned to the cistern, Joseph wasn't there! In mounting panic, he tore his clothes,

returned to his brothers, and shouted, "He's not there! Now what? Where am I to go?"

So he returned to Judah and said, "I haven't found her. Also, the men who are from there said, "There's been no prostitute here.'"

When he returned, he spoke with them, but then he took Simeon away from them and had him placed under arrest right in front of them. After this, Joseph gave orders to fill up their sacks with grain, to return each man's money to his own sack, and to supply each of them with provisions for their return journey. All of this was done for them.

He reported to his brothers, "My money has been returned! It's right here in my sack!" Trembling with mounting consternation, each of them asked one another, "What is God doing to us?"

As soon as they had returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him everything that had happened to them.

The men were terrified as they were being taken to Joseph's palace. "It's because of that money that was returned to our sacks the first time we were brought to him," they reasoned. "He's seeking an excuse to attack us, enslave us, and confiscate our donkeys!"

At this, they all tore their clothes, reloaded their donkeys, and returned to the city.

Joseph was waiting for them back at his palace when his brothers returned. They fell to the ground in front of him,

So Joseph's brothers left Egypt and returned to the land of Canaan and to their father Jacob,

After he had buried his father, Joseph and his brothers returned to Egypt, along with everyone who had gone with him to attend the burial.

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ὑποστρέφω 
Hupostrepho 
Usage: 31

תּוּב 
Tuwb (Aramaic) 
Usage: 8

סבב 
Cabab 
Usage: 157

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

שׁוּבה 
Shuwbah 
Usage: 1

תּשׁבה תּשׁוּבה 
T@shuwbah 
Usage: 8

ἀνακάμπτω 
Anakampto 
Usage: 3

ἀναλύω 
Analuo 
Usage: 1

ἀναστρέφω 
Anastrepho 
Usage: 11

επανάγω 
Epanago 
Usage: 2

ἐπανέρχομαι 
Epanerchomai 
Usage: 0

ἐπιστρέφω 
Epistrepho 
Usage: 29

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