Bible word study

Teshuvah (Strong’s H8666): Meaning in the Bible

Teshuvah (תְּשׁוּבָה) is the Hebrew word numbered H8666 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a recurrence (of time or place); a reply (as returned). In the King James Bible it is translated answer, be expired, return..

• Original wordתְּשׁוּבָה
• Transliterationtᵉshûwbâh
• Pronunciationtesh-oo-baw'
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH8666
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or תְּשֻׁבָה; from H7725;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Teshuvah appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Teshuvah (H8666) stands behind 8 English renderings in 8 verses across 6 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in 1 Kings (2), Job (2), 1 Samuel (1).

How the King James Bible renders Teshuvah, by count

• expired3 of 8 (38 percent)
• return3 of 8 (38 percent)
• answers2 of 8 (25 percent)

Three places to read Teshuvah

• 1 Samuel 7:17 And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
• 1 Kings 20:22 And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.
• 2 Chronicles 36:10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Teshuvah in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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