סוּג
çûwg · soog
properly, to flinch, i.e. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to flinch, i.e. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: backslider, drive, go back, turn (away, back).
Letters
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to support and uphold › to fasten and establish › to carry, to lift up
To support and uphold that works to fasten and establish that works to carry, to lift up.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of סוּג above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
14 occurrences · 14 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- let them be turned2 · 14%
- and turned2 · 14%
- it; let them be driven1 · 7%
- is not turned1 · 7%
- every one of them is gone back1 · 7%
- but turned back1 · 7%
- so will not we go back1 · 7%
- the backslider1 · 7%
- they shall be turned1 · 7%
- neither turned away1 · 7%
- and they are turned away1 · 7%
- and them that are turned back1 · 7%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.