Definition

to requite (good or evil)

Etymology

from G473 (ἀντί) and G591 (ἀποδίδωμι);

Word family

• ἀντί antí
• ἀποδίδωμι apodídōmi

How the KJV renders it

• recompense
• render
• repay

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.