ge.mu.lah denotes a due return or repayment, including a requested favor and repayment to adversaries.

The occurrences show a due return or repayment: a requested action for Chimham in 2 Samuel 19:37 and repayment directed toward adversaries, enemies, and Babylon in Isaiah 59:18 and Jeremiah 51:56.

1. Due return or repayment · dominant

   In 2 Samuel 19:37, the singular noun occurs as Barzillai asks the king to do for Chimham what is pleasing in the king's eyes. In Isaiah 59:18 and Jeremiah 51:56, the plural forms occur in clauses of repayment: the APB renders repayment to adversaries and enemies in Isaiah 59:18, and calls the LORD the “God of recompenses” who “will surely repay” in Jeremiah 51:56.

   2 Samuel 19:37Isaiah 59:18Jeremiah 51:56

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the repayment setting explicitly with “recompense,” “repay,” and “God of recompenses” in Isaiah 59:18 and Jeremiah 51:56; in 2 Samuel 19:37 it renders the surrounding request as doing what is pleasing. The term's precise English counterpart in 2 Samuel 19:37 is uncertain.