geula · redemption

What it means

geula (גְּאֻלָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “redemption”.

The act and the right of buying back what had been sold, or the person who had been sold; also the price paid. Once, the relatives who held that right (Ezekiel 11:15).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The right to buy back land or a person.
2. The price paid to buy back.
3. The relatives who have that right.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×9
• Ruth×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×1

• Leviticus 25:24

  And throughout all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption to the land.

• Leviticus 25:26

  And if a man has no redeemer, but his hand reaches and finds enough for his redemption,

• Leviticus 25:29

  And if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, his redemption shall last until a year from his sale is complete; for a full year shall his redemption last.

• Leviticus 25:31

  But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be counted as the field of the land; they shall have redemption, and in the jubilee they shall go free.

• Leviticus 25:32

  As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have eternal redemption.

• Leviticus 25:48

  after he has sold himself he shall have redemption; one of his brothers may redeem him,

• Leviticus 25:51

  If many years still remain, according to them he shall pay back the price of his redemption from the silver he was bought for.

• Leviticus 25:52

  And if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate with him; according to his years he shall pay back the price of his redemption.

• Ruth 4:6

  The kinsman-redeemer said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I destroy my inheritance. You redeem my redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem.”

• Ruth 4:7

  Now this was done formerly in Israel concerning redemption and concerning exchange, to confirm any matter: a man took off his sandal and gave it to his companion; and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.

• Jeremiah 32:7

  ‘Look, Hanamel son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, “Buy for yourself my field that is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption to buy it is yours.”’

• Jeremiah 32:8

  And Hanamel my uncle's son came to me according to the word of YHWH to the court of the guard, and said to me, ‘Buy, please, my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that it was the word of YHWH.

• Ezekiel 11:15

  “Son of man, your brothers, your brothers, the men of your redemption, and all the house of Israel, all of it, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far from YHWH; to us it has been given, the land, as a possession.’

And 1 more times.