Recompense Recompence

Recompense Recompence

'''A — 1: ἀνταπόδομα (Strong'S #468 — Noun Neuter — antapodoma — an-tap-od'-om-ah )

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,  Luke 14:12; (b) in an unfavorable sense,  Romans 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: ἀνταπόδοσις (Strong'S #469 — Noun Feminine — antapodosis — an-tap-od'-os-is )

derived, like No. 1, from antapodidomi, is rendered "recompense" in  Colossians 3:24 , Rv (Av, "reward").

'''A — 3: ἀντιμισθία (Strong'S #489 — Noun Feminine — antimisthia — an-tee-mis-thee'-ah )

"a reward, requital" (anti, "in return," misthos, "wages, hire"), is used (a) in a good sense,  2 Corinthians 6:13; (b) in a bad sense,  Romans 1:27 .

'''A — 4: μισθαποδοσία (Strong'S #3405 — Noun Feminine — misthapodosia — mis-thap-od-os-ee'-ah )

"a payment of wages" (from mithos, see No. 3, and apodidomi, B, No. 2), "a recompence," is used (a) of reward,  Hebrews 10:35;  11:26; (b) of punishment,  Hebrews 2:2 . Cp. misthapodotes, "a rewarder,"  Hebrews 11:6 .

'''B — 1: ἀνταποδίδωμι (Strong'S #467 — Verb — antapodidomi — an-tap-od-ee'-do-mee )

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  1 Thessalonians 3:9 , here only in the Nt of thanksgiving to God (cp. the Sept. of  Psalm 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  1 Thessalonians 5:15 ),  Luke 14:14 , cp. the corresponding noun in  Luke 14:12; or between God and evil-doers,  Romans 12:19 , Rv (Av, "repay");  Hebrews 10:30 , cp. the noun in  Romans 11:9; or between God and those who do well,  Luke 14:14;  Romans 11:35 , cp. the noun in  Colossians 3:24; in  2 Thessalonians 1:6 both reward and retribution are in view." * [* From Notes on Thessalonians, by Hogg and Vine, p. 226.]

'''B — 2: ἀποδίδωμι (Strong'S #591 — Verb — apodidomi — ap-od-eed'-o-mee )

"to give up or back, restore, return," is translated "shall recompense" in the Rv of  Matthew 6:4,6,18 (Av, "shall reward"); in   Romans 12:17 , Av, "recompense" (Rv, "render"); in  1 Thessalonians 5:15 , "render," See Deliver , Give , Pay , Perform , Render , Repay , Requite , Restore , Reward , Sell , Yield.