One root, two faces that are really one. The verb means to ripen, to wean, to bring a thing to completion, and from there to pay back what completion deserves: reward or punishment, both. Wean a child, ripen a fruit, requite a deed, kick a habit. The famous camel sits in the same family, the animal that goes the distance and comes back. Every word here is verified against pealim, niqqud included.
The same root runs through the verb system. Each binyan is a voice: it bends the one idea into active, passive, causative or reciprocal. Tap to hear.
This root is mostly a noun factory. Only the pa'al verb is lexicalized in everyday Hebrew; the other binyanim are not in common use. The whole web of meaning is carried by the nouns below.
Same root letters, different noun moulds (mishkalim). The mould tells you the function: who does it, the act of doing it, or the thing produced.
Strip the prefixes, suffixes and vowels. Three consonants remain, and the meaning lives there.