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 39Old Testament books
- 35spellings
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
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.
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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- גֹּמֵ֣לgomelverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: dealing bountifully with
She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- גֹּמְלִ֤יםgomelimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: making recompense
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.
