גָּמַל

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

‘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.

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.

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?

…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.”

“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.

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.

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

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

The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

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.

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

…if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

I will sing to the LORD, for He has been good to me.

The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.

Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.

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

A kind man benefits himself, but a cruel man brings trouble on himself.

She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.

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.

The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.