gamal · wean, deal with

What it means

gamal (גָּמַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wean, deal with”.

Wean: stop nursing a child, around two or three years of age. In other passages, deal well or ill with someone; ripen.

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. To stop nursing a child.
2. To treat someone as they deserve.
3. To bear ripe fruit.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• you ×8
• weaned ×7
• repaid me ×3
• are repaying ×2
• she weaned ×2
• was weaned ×2
• Deal well with ×1
• I have repaid ×1
• She repays him ×1
• does good ×1
• others ×9

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×6
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×10
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×6
• Hosea×1
• Joel×1

• Genesis 21:8

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

• Genesis 50:15

  When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the evil that we did to him?”

• Genesis 50:17

  ‘Thus you shall say to Joseph: “I beg you, please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.”’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the Elohim of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

• Numbers 17:8

  And it happened on the next day that Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and look, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and it had put forth buds and produced blossoms and ripened almonds.

• Deuteronomy 32:6

  Is it to YHWH you repay this, foolish and unwise people? Is he not your father, who acquired you? He made you and established you.

• 1 Samuel 1:22

  But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “Until the boy is weaned; then I will bring him, and he will appear before YHWH and dwell there forever.”

• 1 Samuel 1:23

  And Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what is good in your eyes; stay until you have weaned him; only may YHWH establish his word.” So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she weaned him.

• 1 Samuel 1:24

  And she brought him up with her when she had weaned him, with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of YHWH at Shiloh. And the boy was young.

• 1 Samuel 24:17

  He said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me with good, and I have repaid you with evil.

• 2 Samuel 19:36

  Your servant will cross the Jordan with the king just a little way; and why should the king repay me with this reward?

• 2 Samuel 22:21

  YHWH repaid me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he returned it to me.

• 1 Kings 11:20

  And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, and Tahpenes weaned him in the midst of the house of Pharaoh; and Genubath was in the house of Pharaoh among the sons of Pharaoh.

• 2 Chronicles 20:11

  look, they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of your possession that you gave us to possess.

• Psalms 7:4

  if I have repaid with evil the one at peace with me, I who delivered my adversary without cause,

• Psalms 13:6

  I will sing to YHWH, for he has dealt well with me.

• Psalms 18:20

  YHWH repaid me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he returned it to me.

• Psalms 103:10

  Not according to our sins has he dealt with us, nor according to our iniquities has he repaid us.

• Psalms 116:7

  Return, my soul, to your rest, for YHWH has dealt well with you.

• Psalms 119:17

  Deal well with your servant, that I may live, and I will keep your word.

• Psalms 131:2

  Rather, I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like the weaned child within me is my soul.

• Psalms 137:8

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

• Psalms 142:7

  Bring out from prison my soul, to give thanks to your name; the righteous will surround me, for you will deal well with me.

• Proverbs 3:30

  Do not contend with anyone without cause, if he has not done you harm.

• Proverbs 11:17

  A man of loyal love does good to his soul, but the cruel man troubles his body.

• Proverbs 31:12

  She repays him with good and not with evil all the days of her life.

• Isaiah 3:9

  The look of their faces testifies against them, and their sin, like Sodom, they proclaim; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul, for they have brought evil on themselves!

• Isaiah 11:8

  And the nursing child will play over the hole of the viper, and over the den of the cobra the weaned child will stretch out his hand.

• Isaiah 18:5

  For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes an unripe grape ripening, he will cut off the tendrils with pruning knives, and the spreading branches he will remove, he will cut away.

• Isaiah 28:9

  “Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts?

• Isaiah 63:7

  The acts of loyal love of YHWH I will recount, the praises of YHWH, according to all that YHWH has done for us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has done for them according to his compassion and according to the abundance of his acts of loyal love.

• Hosea 1:8

  And she weaned Lo-ruhamah, and she conceived and bore a son.

• 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.

And 5 more times.