Recompense
שִׁלּוּםStrong’s H7966shillum (shil-lum)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shillum is the Hebrew word usually translated “retribution” and “bribe”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.”
Meaning
- Requital, rewardrequital, retribution · reward, bribe
How it's translated
- retribution 2
- for bribe 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Hosea 1
- Micah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Hosea 9:7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
- Micah 7:3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁלּוּם shillum · recompense
1) requital, reward 1a) requital, retribution 1b) reward, bribe
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.