Dealing with someone and weaning or ripening belong to the supplied range, but the passage determines the actual action. Genesis reports Isaac growing and being weaned, while Hannah nurses Samuel until weaning before taking him to Shiloh.
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Dealing with someone and weaning or ripening belong to the supplied range, but the passage determines the actual action. Genesis reports Isaac growing and being weaned, while Hannah nurses Samuel until weaning before taking him to Shiloh.
The BSB source-word alignment has 37 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include has rewarded me (2), like a weaned child (2), - (1), a ripening (1), After she had weaned (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 21:8. Its strongest book concentrations include Psalms (10), 1 Samuel (6), Isaiah (6), Genesis (4).
Dealing with someone and weaning or ripening belong to the supplied range, but the passage determines the actual action. Genesis reports Isaac growing and being weaned, while Hannah nurses Samuel until weaning before taking him to Shiloh. Numbers describes Aaron's staff producing almonds in the named sign. Other contexts concern treatment: Joseph's brothers fear repayment for their own wrong, Psalm 103 praises the Lord for not repaying according to sins, and Proverbs describes a wife bringing good rather than harm.
These subjects cannot be combined into a hidden progression for every life. Read the child, plant or personal action actually named. Gratitude for mercy and responsibility for good treatment can be taught concretely without inventing a spiritual meaning for every stage of child development or promising that everyone harmed will receive the same response as Joseph's brothers.
Children's weaning, Aaron's almond sign, feared repayment, compassionate nonrepayment and good treatment distinguish the selected range. Actual subjects and responses prevent developmental description from becoming an automatic moral or spiritual formula.
So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
The narrative reports Isaac growing and being weaned with a feast on that day, preserving the child and occasion rather than making weaning an unreported spiritual identity.
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”
Joseph's brothers fear repayment for their stated wrong after their father's death, while verses 19-21 record Joseph's actual refusal to take God's place and promise of provision.
He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.
The psalm says the Lord has not dealt according to sins or repaid according to iniquities, with surrounding compassion and forgiveness giving the treatment its stated character.
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Hebrew word. To complete or bring to full maturity; reciprocal dealing that yields appropriate consequences or rewards.
To complete or bring to full maturity; reciprocal dealing that yields appropriate consequences or rewards.
to treat a person (well or ill), i.e. benefit or requite; by implication (of toil), to ripen, i.e. (specifically) to wean BDB: deal fully Usage: bestow on, deal bountifully, do (good), recompense, requite, reward, ripen, serve, mean, yield.
How the stem changes the meaning of this verb across the biblical text.
This verb appears through different tense, voice, mood, or stem patterns. Those forms help readers see how the action is presented in context.
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Showing 2 selected witnesses from 37 lexical occurrence verses.
גָּמַל is a primitive root - no further derivation.
Kindness produces positive outcomes in life and relationships.Proverbs 11:17
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The licensed range is broader than one repayment formula, and each sentence supplies its own subject. Isaac and Samuel are children being weaned, Aaron's staff produces almonds as the named sign, and other witnesses concern what people or the Lord do to someone. Joseph's brothers fear repayment for actual evil; his later words preserve both that evil and his promise of provision without claiming God's place.
Psalm 103 explicitly praises treatment that does not repay according to sins, while Proverbs describes good rather than harm in a relationship. Teach these concrete differences instead of deriving a hidden life sequence from the range. Mercy can remain mercy without making wrong righteous, and physical development need not bear an invented spiritual identity.
The word does not announce every present relationship's outcome or require a harmed person to reproduce another narrative's contact arrangements.
Ps.103.10
The licensed Hebrew range includes dealing with a person, repayment, weaning and ripening. Children, a staff producing almonds and interpersonal treatment supply different subjects. Read the actual sentence rather than importing every listed rendering into it or deriving an unreported spiritual development sequence from the shared verb.
Romans 12:17-21 forbids repayment of evil for evil, retains the qualification about peace being possible on one's part and calls for good toward an enemy. Read its distinct Greek instruction beside Joseph's stated provision and Psalm 103's mercy without equating every lexical identity or private circumstance. Refusing retaliation does not declare wrongdoing harmless or require unsafe continued exposure, and the word gives no teacher authority to set another person's reconciliation terms.