גָּאַל gâʼal — 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.)
Translated in the KJV as × in any wise, × at all, avenger, deliver, (do, perform the part of near, next) kinsfolk, purchase, ransom, redeem, revenger.
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.).
gâʼal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 46Imperfect (yiqtol) 18Perfect (qatal) 12Infinitive construct 5Imperative 4Participle (passive) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Infinitive absolute 3Wayyiqtol 1
The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›