Go'el — Redeemer
גֹּאֵל
The Kinsman-Redeemer — the family member with the right and duty to buy back the enslaved, the lost land, the widow's future.
Redemption in Hebrew is family law before it is theology: the Go'el redeems because he is RELATED. Isaiah names God Israel's Go'el thirteen times; the book of Ruth acts the office out; Messianic faith sees Yeshua taking on flesh precisely to become the qualifying Kinsman.
First occurrence
Gen 48:16 — Jacob: 'the Angel who redeemed me from all evil'
Key passages
Job 19:25 — 'I know that my Go'el lives'
Isa 44:6 — 'Thus says YHVH, Israel's King and Go'el, YHVH Tzva'ot'
Ruth 3:13 — Boaz the kinsman-redeemer — the verse of the large nun
Isa 59:20 — 'The Go'el will come to Zion'
In the Greek Scriptures
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