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Hebrew verb · H1580

גָּמַל

gamalgaw-mal'

to wean

37 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: gâmal

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1580is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 35
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1580

to treat a person (well or ill), i.e. benefit or requite; by implication (of toil), to ripen, i.e. (specifically) to wean

The King James renders it: bestow on, deal bountifully, do (good), recompense, requite, reward, ripen, [phrase] serve, mean, yield.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

gamal is rendered "to wean". It stands 37 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.

  • Ten of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 21:8So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
  • The Greek text spells it thirty-five different ways.

The first use

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

Genesis 21:8וַיִּגָּמַ֑ל

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Ten of the word's thirty-seven uses are in Psalms.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • he has dealt bountifully2
  • a weaned1
  • and he was weaned1
  • and it had ripened1
  • and she weaned1
  • and she weaned him1
  • deal bountifully1
  • dealing bountifully with1
  • do you repay1
  • had weaned she1
  • he dealt with me1
  • he has dealt out to them1

and 24 more, 37 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

גָּמָלgamalcamelUses54
גָּמַרgamarto ceaseUses5
גָּמָאgamato swallowUses2

The words it stands beside

All 37, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

35 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • גָּמַ֥ל2
  • יִגְמְלֵ֣נִי2
  • גָּמ֖וּל1
  • גְּמוּלֵי֙1
  • גְּמֹ֖ל1
  • גָמַ֣ל1
  • גֹּמֵ֣ל1
  • גֹּמֵ֖ל1
  • גָּמְלָ֖הּ1
  • גָמְל֥וּ1
  • גְמָל֔וּךָ1
  • גֹּמְלִ֖ים1

and 23 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3HVqi3ms/Sp1bs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqp3fs/Sp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural2HVqrmpa
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
  • Hc/VNw3ms1Hc/VNw3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs
  • Hc/Vqw3fs/Sp3ms1Hc/Vqw3fs/Sp3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular1HR/Vqsmsa
  • preposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular1HRd/Vqsmsa
  • relative particle (“who / which”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singular1HTr/Vqp2fs

Genesis

four uses
  • So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

    Genesis 21:8

    • וַיִּגָּמַ֑לvaiyigamalHc/VNw3mstagged: and he was weaned
    • הִגָּמֵ֥לhigamelverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: was weaned
  • 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.”

    Genesis 50:15

    • גָּמַ֖לְנוּgamalnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we dealt out to
  • ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.’ So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

    Genesis 50:17

    • גְמָל֔וּךָgemalukhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: they dealt out to you

Numbers

one use
  • The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony and saw that Aaron’s staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, put forth buds, blossomed, and produced almonds.

    Numbers 17:8

    • וַיִּגְמֹ֖לvaiyigmolHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it had ripened

Deuteronomy

one use
  • Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

    Deuteronomy 32:6

    • תִּגְמְלוּ־tigmelu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: do you repay

1 Samuel

six uses
  • but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”

    1 Samuel 1:22

    • יִגָּמֵ֤לyigamelverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be weaned
  • “Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.” So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

    1 Samuel 1:23

    • גָּמְלֵ֣ךְgamelekhverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: wean you
    • גָּמְלָ֖הּgamelahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: had weaned she
  • Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.

    1 Samuel 1:24

    • גְּמָלַ֗תּוּgemalatuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: she had weaned him
  • and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, though I have rewarded you with evil.

    1 Samuel 24:17

    • גְּמַלְתַּ֣נִיgemaltaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you have dealt out to me
    • גְּמַלְתִּ֥יךָgemaltikhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I have dealt out to you

2 Samuel

two uses
  • Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?

    2 Samuel 19:36

    • יִגְמְלֵ֣נִיyigmeleniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: will he reward me
  • The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

    2 Samuel 22:21

    • יִגְמְלֵ֥נִיyigmeleniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he dealt with me

1 Kings

one use
  • And the sister of Tahpenes bore Hadad a son named Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace, and Genubath lived there among the sons of Pharaoh.

    1 Kings 11:20

    • וַתִּגְמְלֵ֣הוּvatigmelehuHc/Vqw3fs/Sp3mstagged: and she weaned him

2 Chronicles

one use
  • See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession that You gave us as an inheritance.

    2 Chronicles 20:11

    • גֹּמְלִ֖יםgomelimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: repaying

Psalms

ten uses
  • if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

    Psalms 7:4

    • גָּ֭מַלְתִּיgamaltiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have repaid
  • I will sing to the LORD, for He has been good to me.

    Psalms 13:6

    • גָמַ֣לgamalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has dealt bountifully
  • The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

    Psalms 18:20

    • יִגְמְלֵ֣נִיyigmeleniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he has dealt with me
  • He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

    Psalms 103:10

    • גָּמַ֥לgamalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has repaid
  • Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.

    Psalms 116:7

    • גָּמַ֥לgamalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has dealt bountifully
  • Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word.

    Psalms 119:17

    • גְּמֹ֖לgemolverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: deal bountifully
  • Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

    Psalms 131:2

    • כְּ֭גָמֻלkegamulpreposition + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: like a weaned
    • כַּגָּמֻ֖לkagamulpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: like the weaned
  • O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

    Psalms 137:8

    • שֶׁגָּמַ֥לְתְּshegamaltrelative particle (“who / which”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: that you dealt
  • Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.

    Psalms 142:7

    • תִגְמֹ֣לtigmolverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you deal bountifully

Proverbs

three uses
  • Do not accuse a man without cause, when he has done you no harm.

    Proverbs 3:30

    • גְמָלְךָ֣gemalekhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he has dealt out to you
  • A kind man benefits himself, but a cruel man brings trouble on himself.

    Proverbs 11:17

    • גֹּמֵ֣לgomelverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: dealing bountifully with
  • She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.

    Proverbs 31:12

    • גְּמָלַ֣תְהוּgemalathuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: she feeds him

Isaiah

six uses
  • The expression 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 upon themselves.

    Isaiah 3:9

    • גָמְל֥וּgameluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have done
  • The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.

    Isaiah 11:8

    • גָּמ֖וּלgamulverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: a weaned
  • For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.

    Isaiah 18:5

    • גֹּמֵ֖לgomelverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: ripening
  • Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?

    Isaiah 28:9

    • גְּמוּלֵי֙gemuleiverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: weaned
  • I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.

    Isaiah 63:7

    • גְּמָלָ֖נוּgemalanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: he has dealt out to us
    • גְּמָלָ֥םgemalamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he has dealt out to them

Hosea

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

    Hosea 1:8

    • וַתִּגְמֹ֖לvatigmolHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she weaned

Joel

one use
  • Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.

    Joel 3:4

    • גֹּמְלִ֤יםgomelimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: making recompense

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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