גָּמַל gâmal — to treat a person (well or ill), i.e. benefit or requite
Translated in the KJV as bestow on, deal bountifully, do, recompense, requite, reward, ripen, serve, mean, yield.
a primitive root; to treat a person (well or ill), i.e. benefit or requite; by implication (of toil), to ripen, i.e. (specifically) to wean.
gâmal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 15Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Participle (active) 4Participle (passive) 4Wayyiqtol 3Infinitive construct 2Imperative 1
And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
Niph'al
Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive construct 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide for ever.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›