גָּאַל

gaal

gah-AHL

to redeem, to buy back as next of kin

Where it comes from

A family term before it is a theological one. The goel was the relative obliged to buy back a family member's land or freedom — redemption as kinship duty, which is the whole engine of the book of Ruth.

Job 19:25

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.

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