Words the Bible translates as ripen
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- gamalגָּמַלto ripen: for a plant to bring its fruit or growth to full maturity
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- to deal out to someone what an act has earned: to repay, reward, or requite, whether good or ill
- to wean a child: to finish the nursing years and bring a child to the next stage
- bashalבָּשַׁלto ripen: for grapes or a grain harvest to come to full maturity
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- to boil food in liquid until it is cooked; to seethe or stew, especially meat
- ḥanatחָנַטof a fig tree: to bring out its first small figs and start them ripening
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- to treat a dead body with spices and fragrant resins so that it will not decay: to embalm
- akmazōἀκμάζωto ripennot studied yet
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