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Recompense

μισθαποδοσίαStrong’s G3405

misthapodosia

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Misthapodosia is the Greek word usually translated “reward” and “recompense”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;”
Hebrews 2:2 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “reward” and “recompense”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • reward 2
  • recompense 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Hebrews 3

1 book in all.

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Greek dictionary

μισθαποδοσία misthapodosia · recompense

μισθαποδοσία, -ας, ἡ (μισθός, ἀποδίδωμι; cl. μισθοδοσία), pay­ment of wages, recompense; meton., (a) of reward: Heb.10:35 11:26; (b) of punishment : Heb.2:2.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “recompense” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

REC'OMPENSE, verb transitive

  1. To compensate; to make return of an equivalent for any thing given, done or suffered; as, to recompense a person for services, for fidelity or for sacrifices of time, for loss or damages.
  2. To require; to repay; to return an equivalent; in a bad sense.“Recompense to no man evil for evil” Romans 12:17
  3. To make an equivalent return in profit or produce.
  4. To compensate; to make amends by any thing equivalent.
All definitions and other forms of “recompense”
  1. To make restitution or an equivalent return for. Numbers 5:7

REC'OMPENSE, noun

  1. An equivalent returned for any thing given, done or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; as a recompense for services, for damages, for loss, etc.
  2. Requital; return of evil or suffering or other equivalent; as a punishment.“And every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward” Hebrews 2:2

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.