gemul · recompense, deed

What it means

gemul (גְּמוּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “recompense, deed”.

What is due, repayment: what someone receives for what he has done, whether good or bad; also the deed itself.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What one receives for what one did.
2. A kindness done.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• recompense ×10
• retribution ×3
• benefit ×1
• benefits ×1
• deeds ×1
• deserved ×1
• good deed ×1
• repayment ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Joel×3
• Obadiah×1

• Judges 9:16

  Now then, if you have acted in truth and integrity in making Abimelech king, and if you have done well with Jerubbaal and with his house, and if you have done to him as his hands deserved —

• 2 Chronicles 32:25

  But Hezekiah did not repay according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was lifted up; and there was wrath upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

• Psalms 28:4

  Give them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; according to the work of their hands give them; return their recompense to them.

• Psalms 94:2

  Lift yourself up, judge of the earth; return their recompense to the proud.

• Psalms 103:2

  Bless YHWH, my soul, and do not forget any of his benefits:

• Psalms 137:8

  Daughter of Babylon, the devastated one, happy is he who repays you your recompense that you dealt to us.

• Proverbs 12:14

  From the fruit of the mouth of a man he will be satisfied with good, and the repayment of the hands of a man will be returned to him.

• Proverbs 19:17

  Whoever shows favor to the poor lends to YHWH, and his good deed he will repay him.

• Isaiah 3:11

  Woe to the wicked! It will be ill, for the recompense of his hands will be done to him.

• Isaiah 35:4

  Say to those who are hasty of heart, “Be strong, do not fear! Look, your Elohim; vengeance will come, the recompense of Elohim; he will come and save you.”

• Isaiah 59:18

  According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay: fury to his adversaries, retribution to his enemies; to the coastlands he will repay retribution.

• Isaiah 66:6

  A sound of uproar from the city, a sound from the temple, the sound of YHWH repaying retribution to his enemies!

• Jeremiah 51:6

  Flee from the midst of Babylon, and save, each one, his life! Do not be silenced in her iniquity, for this is a time of vengeance for YHWH; a recompense he is paying to her.

• Lamentations 3:64

  You will return to them a recompense, YHWH, according to the work of their hands.

• Joel 3:4

  And also, what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back a recompense? And if you are repaying me, swiftly, speedily I will return your recompense on your head.

• Joel 3:7

  Look at me: I am rousing them from the place to which you sold them, and I will return your recompense on your head.

• Obadiah 1:15

  For near is the day of YHWH upon all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return on your own head.

And 2 more times.