H1353 H1353
Redemption, right of redemption — the legal act or right of buying back land, persons, or property
A feminine noun from the root gā'al ('to redeem, act as kinsman-redeemer'), denoting the act, right, or price of redemption. Its primary domain is the Jubilee legislation of Leviticus 25, where it governs the buying back of ancestral land (v. 24), houses in walled cities (vv. 29-31), Levitical property (v. 32), and persons sold into servitude (vv. 48-52). The calculated 'price of redemption' (ge'ullātō) is proportional to the years remaining until Jubilee. In Ruth 4:6-7, the kinsman-redeemer's right of ge'ullāh becomes a narrative pivot when the nearer kinsman declines. Jeremiah 32:7-8 invokes the mishpaṭ hagge'ullāh ('right of redemption') as Jeremiah buys his cousin's field at Anathoth — an enacted sign of hope during the siege. Ezekiel 11:15 uses it more broadly for 'kinship' itself.
Senses
1. redemption, right of redemption — The legal right, act, or price of redeeming property or persons, rooted in Israel's kinship-based land tenure system. Concentrated in Leviticus 25 (eight of fourteen occurrences), where it governs redemption of fields (v. 24), houses (vv. 29, 31-32), and enslaved persons (vv. 48, 51-52), with the redemption price calculated by years to Jubilee. In Ruth 4:6-7, ge'ullāh denotes the kinsman-redeemer's right that drives the plot resolution. Jeremiah 32:7-8 uses it as a prophetic sign of restoration. Renderings (eng: redemption, spa: redención, fra: rachat, deu: Lösung) confirm the legal-economic semantic core. Ezekiel 11:15 may extend the term to kinship itself. 14×
AR["الْفَدَاءِ", "الْفِكَاكُ", "الْفِكَاكِ", "فَدَائِي", "فِدَاءً", "فِدَاءٌ", "فِدَاءَهُ", "فِدَاءُ", "فِدَاؤُهُ", "فِدَائِكَ", "فِدَائِهِ"]·ben["-মুক্তির", "আমার-মুক্তি", "তার-মুক্তি", "তার-মুক্তি।", "তার-মুক্তির।", "তোমার-মুক্তির", "মুক্তি", "সেই-মুক্তি"]·DE["[גאלתי]", "[גאלתך]", "[הגאולה]", "[הגאלה]", "redemption", "redemption-von", "sein-redemption"]·EN["his-redemption", "its-redemption", "my-redemption", "redemption", "redemption-of", "redemption-of-you", "the-redemption"]·FR["[הגאלה]", "le-rachat", "mon-rachat", "rachat", "rachat-de", "rédemption", "son-rachat"]·heb["גאולתי", "גאולתך", "גאלה", "גאלת", "גאלתו", "ה-גאולה"]·HI["अपनी-छुड़ौती", "इसकी-छुड़ौती", "उसकी-छुड़ौती", "छुड़ाने", "छुड़ाने-का", "छुड़ाने-का-अधिकार", "छुड़ौती", "तेरे-छुड़ाने"]·ID["hak-penebusan", "hak-tebusanku", "penebus-mu", "penebusan", "penebusannya"]·IT["[גאלתך]", "[הגאלה]", "il-redenzione", "mio-redenzione", "redemption", "redemption-di", "suo-redemption"]·jav["kang-panebusan", "nebus-panjenengan", "panebusan", "panebusan-ipun", "panebusan-ipun,", "panebusan-ipun.", "panebusan-kula", "tebusan"]·KO["그-구속의", "그-구속이다", "그-무름에", "그의-무름을", "그의-무름의", "그의-무름이", "나의-무름을", "네-구속의", "무름을", "무름이", "무름이니"]·PT["a-redenção", "meu-resgate", "o-resgate", "resgate", "resgate-de", "seu-resgate", "tua-redenção"]·RU["выкуп", "выкуп-его", "выкуп-мой", "выкуп-свой", "выкупа", "выкупа-своего", "выкупе", "родства-твоего"]·ES["la-redención", "mi-redención", "redención", "redención-de", "redención-de-ti", "su-redención"]·SW["haki-yangu-ya-ukombozi", "ukombozi", "ukombozi-wa-", "ukombozi-wake", "wa-ukombozi-wako"]·TR["-kurtarmanın", "fıdıyenın", "geri-alım", "geri-alımı", "geri-alımı-", "geri-alımın", "geri-alımını", "kurtarılacak-olanı"]·urd["تیری-قرابت-کے", "فدیہ-دینے", "میرے-فدیہ-دینے-کا-حق", "چھٹکارا", "چھٹکارا-اُس-کا", "چھٹکارا-اُس-کے", "چھڑانے-اُس-کے", "چھڑانے-کا"]
Related Senses
H5414 1. give, bestow (1855×)H3947 1. take, seize, grasp (Qal) (940×)G2192 1. possess / have (680×)G1325 1. give, bestow (336×)H5159 1. inherited land or property (170×)G2983 1. receive, obtain (134×)H3423 1. Qal: take possession of land (130×)G2983 2. take, take up (113×)G2398 1. one's own, belonging to oneself (91×)G3860 1. hand over, deliver to custody (78×)H7998 1. spoil, plunder, booty (74×)G1325 2. be given, be granted (70×)H5414 2. put, place, set (68×)H7999a 1. pay, repay, recompense (63×)H7069 1. Buy, purchase (59×)H1892 1. vanity, futility, absurdity (58×)H5159 2. heritage as covenant portion (52×)H6299 1. redeem or ransom (Qal active) (49×)H4376 1. Sell (Qal active) (47×)H1350a 1. Redeem, buy back (46×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† גְּאֻלָּה14 n.f. kin (?), redemption—Lv 25:24 + 5 times; cstr. גְּאֻלַּת Lv 25:32; sf. גְּאֻלָּתִי Ru 4:6, גְּאֻלָּתֶ֑ךָ Ez 11:15, גְּאֻלָּתוֹ Lv 25:26 + 4 times;— 1. kin, אַנְשֵׁי גְּאֻלָּתֶ֑ךָ men of thy kindred Ez 11:15 RV Thes Hi al.; but 𝔊 𝔖 Ew Co א׳ גלותך thy fellow-exiles. 2. redemption, of field Lv 25:24 (H) Ru 4:7. 3. right of redemption Lv 25:29, 31, 32, 48 (H) Ru 4:6 Je 32:8 = משׁפט הגאלה Je 32:7. 4. price of redemption Lv 25:26, 51, 52 (H).