Strong's #1350: ga'al (pronounced gaw-al')
a primitive root, to redeem (according to the Oriental law of kinship), i.e. to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his widow, etc.):--X in any wise, X at all, avenger, deliver, (do, perform the part of near, next) kinsfolk(-man), purchase, ransom, redeem(-er), revenger.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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gâ'al
1) to redeem, act as kinsman-redeemer, avenge, revenge, ransom, do the part of a kinsman
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to act as kinsman, do the part of next of kin, act as kinsman-redeemer
1a1a) by marrying brother' s widow to beget a child for him, to redeem from slavery, to redeem land, to exact vengeance
1a2) to redeem (by payment)
1a3) to redeem (with God as subject)
1a3a) individuals from death
1a3b) Israel from Egyptian bondage
1a3c) Israel from exile
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to redeem oneself
1b2) to be redeemed
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 104 times:
Jeremiah 50:34: " Their Redeemer the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead"
Lamentations 3:58: "the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life."
Hosea 13:14: "I will ransom of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death,"
Micah 4:10: "there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies."
