ἀμοιβή
amoibḗ · G287 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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recompense, repayment
That which is given as a means of recompense or repayment
Examples1 Timothy 5:4 but if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show proper respect for their own family and to give back compensation to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀποδίδωμιto give back, to pay, to repay 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- ἀνταπόδομα antapódoma · G468 · repayment, recompense, reward for what has been done
- Greek synonym for requital/recompense, shares the semantic field of repaying or giving back in return; both denote the act or result of recompensing
- ἀνταπόδοσις antapódosis · G469 · recompense, reward for what has been done
- Greek near-synonym denoting the action or state of repaying/recompensing, closely parallel to ἀμοιβή in the semantic domain of requital
- μισθαποδοσία misthapodosía · G3405 · reward, recompense, penalty
- Greek term for recompense or reward, shares the semantic domain of repayment though may carry stronger connotation of earned wages or reward
In the other Testament 2 words
- גְּמוּל gᵉmûwl · H1576 · actions, retribution
- Hebrew equivalent for the concept of requital/recompense, used for both reward and retribution; translators could naturally substitute this for ἀμοιβή in contexts of repayment or recompense
- שִׁלֵּם shillêm · H8005 · payback, retribution
- Hebrew noun denoting repayment or recompense, a natural translation equivalent for the concept of requital expressed by ἀμοιβή
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Recompense, repayment57.168
- In 1 Timothy 5:4, children and grandchildren of a widow must “learn... to give back compensation (amoibás) to their parents,” describing a repayment owed in return for what was received.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ῆς, ἡ (from ἀμείβω, as ἀλειφή from ἀλείφω, στοιβή from στείβω), a very common word with…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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