Recompense
שִׁלֵּםStrong’s H8005shillem (shil-lem)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shillem is the Hebrew word usually translated “retribution”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.”
Meaning
- Recompense, requital
How it's translated
- and retribution 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁלֵּם shillem · recompense
recompense, requital
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.