ἀμοιβή, (ῆς, ἡ (from ἀμείβω, as ἀλειφή from ἀλείφω, στοιβή from στείβω), a very common word with the Greeks, requital, recompense, in a good and a bad sense (from the significance of the middle ἀμείβομαι to requite, return like for like): in a good sense, 1Ti_5:4.

ἀμοιβή amoibē 1x (adequate) return, recompense, 1Ti_5:4

** ἀμοιβή , -ῆς , ἡ ( < ἀμείβομαι , to repay ); [in Aq ., Sm .: Pro_12:14 , al. ;] requital, recompense: 1Ti_5:4 (for illustration from τ .. v . MM , VGT , s.v. ).†

ἀμοιβή [page 27] The phrase in 1Ti_5:4 ἀμοιβὰς ἀποδιδόναι τοῖς προγόνοις , to make a fitting requital to one s parents, is well illustrated by Priene 112 17 , where a certain Zosimus having received the title of citizen has made no fruitless return for the honour [οὐκ ἄκαρπον τὴν τῆς τιμῆς ] δέδειχεν ἀμοιβήν : cf. Cagnat IV. 293 ii. 39 (ii/B.C.) κομιζόμενος τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν ἀξίας τὰς ἀμοιβάς , Syll 365 5 (i/A.D.) βασιλέων κἂν πάνυ ἐπινοῶσιν εἰς εὐχαριστίαν τηλικούτου θεοῦ εὑρεῖν ἴσας ἀμοιβὰς οἷς εὐηργέτηνται μὴ δυναμένων . In P Oxy IV. 705 61 (A.D. 200 2) the Emperors Septimius Severus and Cara-calla reply to a certain Aurelius Horion who desired to confer benefactions on Oxyrhynchus ἀποδεχόμεθά σε καὶ ταύτης̣ τῆς ἐπιδόσεως ἣν ἀξιοῖς ἐπιδοῦναι ταῖς κώμαις τῶν Ὀξυρυγχειτῶν ἀποδιδοὺς ἀμοιβὴν ἐνκτήσεως , we approve of this benefaction also which you request leave to confer upon the villages of the Oxyrhynchite nome, giving (to different persons) a succession in the enjoyment of it (?) (Edd.). P Giss I. 22 6 (ii/A.D.) νυ̣̑ν ὄντως ἀμοιβ [ὴ ]ν [ . . . ] τῆς εὐσεβείας μου ἀ [ναλ ]αμβανούσης σε ἀπρόσ [κοπ ]ον καὶ ἱλαρώτατον .

ἀμοιβή [Etym: ἀμείβω] "a requital, recompense, compensation, return, payment", Od. ; ἑκατόμβης "for" the hecatomb, id=Od. "an answer", Hdt. "change, exchange", of money, Plut. "alternation", κακῶν Eur.

ἀμοιβή, -ῆς, ἡ (ἀμείβομαι, to repay); [in Aq., Sm.: Pro.12:14, al. ;] requital, recompense: 1Ti.5:4 (for illustration from τ.. see MM, VGT, see word).† (AS)