Recompense
גְּמוּלָהStrong’s H1578gemulah (ge-mu-lah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gemulah is the Hebrew word usually translated “reward”, “deeds” and “recompense”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?”
Meaning
- Dealing, recompense
How it's translated
- the reward 1
- deeds 1
- recompense 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 59:18According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
- Jeremiah 51:56Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
Hebrew dictionary
גְּמוּלָה gemulah · recompense
dealing, recompense
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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
- 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.
- To require; to repay; to return an equivalent; in a bad sense.“Recompense to no man evil for evil” Romans 12:17
- To make an equivalent return in profit or produce.
- To compensate; to make amends by any thing equivalent.
All definitions and other forms of “recompense”
- To make restitution or an equivalent return for. Numbers 5:7
REC'OMPENSE, noun
- An equivalent returned for any thing given, done or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; as a recompense for services, for damages, for loss, etc.
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.