Cug means “go back” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5472 — chalkedon (“chalcedony”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5472 סוּג (cuwg) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. cuwg (soog) v. 1. (properly) to flinch 2. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize) It has 14 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include back, turned, go, and backslider. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
cuwg (soog) v. 1. (properly) to flinch 2. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize) [a primitive root] KJV: backslider, drive, go back, turn (away, back).
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5472. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to turn
Usage: 1) to move, go, turn back, move away, backslide 1a) (Qal) to backslide, prove recreant to 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to turn oneself away, turn back 1b2) to be turned or driven back, be repulsed Also means: sug (שׂוּג "to turn back" H7734)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render cuwg, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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14 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5472.
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5472, grouped by book.
Cug (Strong's H5472) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "go back". cuwg (soog) v. 1. (properly) to flinch 2. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize)
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's H5472 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5472 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as back, turned, go, and backslider. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.