Gamal means “requite” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1580 — ekkomizo (“carry out”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1580 גָּמַל (gamal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. gamal (gaw-mal') v. 1. to treat a person (well or ill), i.e. benefit or requite 2. (by implication) (of toil), to ripen, i.e. (specifically) to wean It has 32 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include weaned, they, requite, ripening, and bestowed. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
gamal (gaw-mal') v. 1. to treat a person (well or ill), i.e. benefit or requite 2. (by implication) (of toil), to ripen, i.e. (specifically) to wean [a primitive root] KJV: bestow on, deal bountifully, do (good), recompense, requite, reward, ripen, + serve, mean, yield.
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to wean
Usage: 1) to deal fully with, recompense 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to deal out to, do to 1a2) to deal bountifully with 1a3) to recompense, repay, requite 2) (Qal) to wean a child (Niphal) to be weaned 3) (Qal) to ripen, bear ripe (almonds)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gamal, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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32 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
First 32 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1580.
And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.
And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
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Gamal (Strong's H1580) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "requite". gamal (gaw-mal') v. 1. to treat a person (well or ill), i.e. benefit or requite 2. (by implication) (of toil), to ripen, i.e. (specifically) to wean
This page currently indexes 32 linked usages for Strong's H1580 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1580 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as weaned, they, requite, ripening, and bestowed. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.