Bible word study

Gaal (Strong’s H1350): Meaning in the Bible

Gaal (גָּאַל) is the Hebrew word numbered H1350 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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.). In the King James Bible it is translated avenger, deliver, (do, perform the part of near, next) kinsfolk(-man).

גָּאַל
gâʼal · Hebrew
Strong’s H1350 · gaw-al'

The full Strong’s definition

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.)

Derivation. a primitive root,

How the King James Bible translates it

× in any wise, × at all, avenger, deliver, (do, perform the part of near, next) kinsfolk(-man), purchase, ransom, redeem(-er), revenger. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

And Christ

The go'el is the kinsman-redeemer who buys back what was lost and stands up for his own. Christians see the pattern completed in Jesus, who redeems his people at the price of himself.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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