Redeemer

גָּאַל vb. redeem, act as kinsman — Qal 1. act as kinsman, do the part of next of kin, גֹּאֵל kinsman. a. in taking a kinsman’s widow. b. in redeeming from bondage; c. in redeeming a field; d. claim as kinsman; e. גֹּאֵל הַדָּם the avenger of blood. 2. redeem, by payment of value assesed, of consecrated things, by the original owner. 3. redeem, with God as subj. implying personal relationship, chiefly in poetry: a. individuals, from death, orphans. b. Israel, from Egyptian bondage. c. from exile; Yahweh is גֹּאֵל; and the people גְּאוּלִים (cf. גְּאוּלַי infr.). Niph. 1. refl. redeem oneself. 2. pass. be redeemed, a. field, slave; b. consecrated things; c. Jerusalem by Yahweh.

vb. verb

refl. reflexive

pass. passive

Richard Whitaker et al., The Abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old Testament: From A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament by Francis Brown, S.R. Driver and Charles Briggs, Based on the Lexicon of Wilhelm Gesenius (Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906).