SH-B-TH – ‘return to state of perfection’

This is the root שוב, containing in itself the idea of every kind of re-establishment, of return to a primitive state, united to the sign ת, which is that of sympathy and of reciprocity, sign par excellence, and image of perfection. The translators who have seen in this verb the idea of resting, have not understood the Hebrew. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 65-66)