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Strong's #7999: shalam (pronounced shaw-lam')

a primitive root; to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications):--make amends, (make an) end, finish, full, give again, make good, (re-)pay (again), (make) (to) (be at) peace(-able), that is perfect, perform, (make) prosper(-ous), recompense, render, requite, make restitution, restore, reward, X surely.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâlam

1) to be in a covenant of peace, be at peace

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be at peace

1a2) peaceful one (participle)

1b) (Pual) one in covenant of peace (participle)

1c) (Hiphil)

1c1) to make peace with

1c2) to cause to be at peace

1d) (Hophal) to live in peace

2) to be complete, be sound

2a) (Qal)

2a1) to be complete, be finished, be ended

2a2) to be sound, be uninjured

2b) (Piel)

2b1) to complete, finish

2b2) to make safe

2b3) to make whole or good, restore, make compensation

2b4) to make good, pay

2b5) to requite, recompense, reward

2c) (Pual)

2c1) to be performed

2c2) to be repaid, be requited

2d) (Hiphil)

2d1) to complete, perform

2d2) to make an end of

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 116 times:

Isaiah 66:6: "a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompense to his enemies."
Jeremiah 16:18: "And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled"
Jeremiah 18:20: "Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul."
Jeremiah 25:14: "shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands."
Jeremiah 32:18: "Thou showest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom"
Jeremiah 50:29: "let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done,"
Jeremiah 51:6: "this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense."
Jeremiah 51:24: " And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil"
Jeremiah 51:56: "the LORD God of recompenses shall surely requite."
Jeremiah 51:56: "the LORD God of recompenses shall surely requite."
Ezekiel 33:15: "If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life,"
Hosea 14:2: "iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips."
Joel 2:25: " And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar,"
Joel 3:4: "the coasts of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye"
Jonah 2:9: "will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD."
Nahum 1:15: "O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no"









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