A-1 | Noun | Strong's Number: g468 | Greek: antapodoma |
Recompence, Recompense:
akin to antapodidomi, "to recompense" (see below), lit., "a giving back in return" (anti, "in return," apo, "back," didomi, "to give"), a requital, recompence, is used
(a) in a favorable sense, Luk 14:12;
(b) in an unfavorable sense, Rom 11:9, indicating that the present condition of the Jewish nation is the retributive effect of their transgressions, on account of which that which was designed as a blessing ("their table") has become a means of judgment.
A-2 | Noun | Strong's Number: g469 | Greek: antapodosis |
Recompence, Recompense:
derived, like No. 1, from antapodidomi, is rendered "recompense" in Col 3:24, RV (AV, "reward").
A-3 | Noun | Strong's Number: g489 | Greek: antimisthia |
Recompence, Recompense:
"a reward, requital" (anti, "in return," misthos, "wages, hire"), is used
(a) in a good sense, 2Cr 6:13;
(b) in a bad sense, Rom 1:27.
A-4 | Noun | Strong's Number: g3405 | Greek: misthapodosia |
Recompence, Recompense:
"a payment of wages" (from mithos, see No. 3, and apodidomi, B, No. 2), "a recompence," is used
(a) of reward, Hbr 10:35; 11:26;
(b) of punishment, Hbr 2:2. Cp. misthapodotes, "a rewarder," Hbr 11:6.
B-1 | Verb | Strong's Number: g467 | Greek: antapodidomi |
Recompence, Recompense:
akin to A, No. 1 and No. 2, "to give back as an equivalent, to requite, recompense" (the anti expressing the idea of a complete return), is translated "render" in 1Th 3:9, here only in the NT of thanksgiving to God (cp. the Sept. of Psa 116:12); elsewhere it is used of "recompense," "whether between men (but in that case only of good, not of evil, see No. 2 in 1Th 5:15), Luk 14:14, cp. the corresponding noun in Luk 14:12; or between God and evil-doers, Rom 12:19, RV (AV, "repay"); Hbr 10:30, cp. the noun in Rom 11:9;
or between God and those who do well, Luk 14:14; Rom 11:35, cp. the noun in Col 3:24; in 2Th 1:6 both reward and retribution are in view." *
[* From Notes on Thessalonians, by Hogg and Vine, p. 226.]
B-2 | Verb | Strong's Number: g591 | Greek: apodidomi |
Recompence, Recompense:
"to give up or back, restore, return," is translated "shall recompense" in the RV of Mat 6:4, 6, 18 (AV, "shall reward"); in Rom 12:17, AV, "recompense" (RV, "render"); in 1Th 5:15, "render."
See DELIVER, GIVE, PAY, PERFORM, RENDER, REPAY, REQUITE, RESTORE, REWARD, SELL, YIELD.
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