Words the Bible translates as recompense
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- salemשָׁלֵםto pay back in full: to give a person exactly what their deeds or debts have earned, whether restitution, reward, or punishment
+3 more meanings
- to pay a vow: to discharge in full a promise made to God by handing over exactly what was pledged
- to be whole and finished, or to bring something to its finish: to reach completion, or to carry a work through to its end
- to make peace with someone, or to be at peace with them: to end hostility and stand in settled, friendly relations
- antapodidōmiἀνταποδίδωμιto give back in return: to settle an account by handing back what someone's own action has earned, whether a kindness answered or a wrong punished.
- gemulגְּמוּלa dealing: what one person does to another, or the matching return that deed earns; most often a deserved recompense.
- pe'ullahפְּעֻלָּהwhat work brings back: the pay, reward, or payback earned by labor, and at times the labor itself
- misthapodosiaμισθαποδοσίαrecompensenot studied yet
- gemulahגְּמוּלָהrecompensenot studied yet
- shillumשִׁלּוּםrecompensenot studied yet
- antimisthiaἀντιμισθίαrecompensenot studied yet
- shillemשִׁלֵּםrecompensenot studied yet
- shillumahשִׁלֻּמָהrecompensenot studied yet
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