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Words
גָּאַל H1350
- Home gloss
- redeem; participle redeemer
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- redeem
- Note
- The near kinsman's duty to buy back land, a person or a name, and to avenge blood (Lev 25:25–49; Num 35:19; Ruth 3–4); the title of Adonai (Isa 41:14; 43:14; Job 19:25). First at Gen 48:16, of the messenger. Kept apart from פָּדָה "ransom" and from כֹּפֶר
- Rulings
- 2, 37
Occurrences (1)
- 48:16 the messenger redeeming me from all bad—may he bless the lads;and let my name be called on them, and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac;and let them teem into abundance in the inward part of the land."