Lexicon :: Strong's H1580 - gāmal

The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said to one another, “If Joseph is holding a grudge against us, he will certainly repay us for all the suffering we caused him.”

“‘Say this to Joseph: Please forgive your brothers’ transgression and their sin ​— ​the suffering they caused you.’ Therefore, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when their message came to him.

The next day Moses entered the tent of the testimony and saw that Aaron’s staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, formed buds, blossomed, and produced almonds!

Is this how you repay the LORD,

you foolish and senseless people?

Isn’t he your Father and Creator?[fn]

Didn’t he make you and sustain you?

Hannah did not go and explained to her husband, “After the child is weaned, I’ll take him to appear in the LORD’s presence and to stay there permanently.”

and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have done what is good to me though I have done what is evil to you.

“Since your servant is only going with the king a little way across the Jordan, why should the king repay me with such a reward?

The LORD rewarded me

according to my righteousness;

he repaid me

according to the cleanness of my hands.

Tahpenes’s sister gave birth to Hadad’s son Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace, and Genubath lived there along with Pharaoh’s sons.

Look how they repay us by coming to drive us out of your possession that you gave us as an inheritance.

if I have done harm to one at peace with me

or have plundered[fn] my adversary without cause,

I will sing to the LORD

because he has treated me generously.

The LORD rewarded me

according to my righteousness;

he repaid me

according to the cleanness of my hands.

He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve

or repaid us according to our iniquities.

Return to your rest, my soul,

for the LORD has been good to you.

Deal generously with your servant

so that I might live;

then I will keep your word.

Instead, I have calmed and quieted my soul

like a weaned child with its mother;

my soul is like a weaned child.

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,

happy is the one who pays you back

what you have done to us.

Free me from prison

so that I can praise your name.

The righteous will gather around me

because you deal generously with me.

Don’t accuse anyone without cause,

when he has done you no harm.

A kind man benefits himself,

but a cruel person brings ruin on himself.

She rewards him with good, not evil,

all the days of her life.

The look on their faces testifies against them,

and like Sodom, they flaunt their sin;

they do not conceal it.

Woe to them,

for they have brought disaster on themselves.

An infant will play beside the cobra’s pit,

and a toddler will put his hand into a snake’s den.

For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over

and the blossom becomes a ripening grape,

he will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife,

and tear away and remove the branches.

Who is he trying to teach?

Who is he trying to instruct?

Infants[fn] just weaned from milk?

Babies[fn] removed from the breast?

I will make known the LORD’s faithful love

and the LORD’s praiseworthy acts,

because of all the LORD has done for us —

even the many good things

he has done for the house of Israel,

which he did for them based on his compassion

and the abundance of his faithful love.

After Gomer had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son.

And also: Tyre, Sidon, and all the territories of Philistia ​— ​what are you to me? Are you paying me back or trying to get even with me? I will quickly bring retribution on your heads.