Strong's Definition
a primitive root, (rather identified with 1350, through the idea of freeing, i.e. repudiating); to soil or (figuratively) desecrate
KJV Usage: defile, pollute, stain
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
גָּאַל (ga.al) — to defile. 1) to defile, pollute, desecrate 1a) (Niphal) to be defiled, be polluted 1b) (Piel) to pollute, desecrate 1c)(Pual) to be desecrated (of removal from priesthood) 1d) (Hiphil) to pollute, stain 1e) (Hithpael) to defile oneself
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · גְּאוּלִים · גְּאֻלָּה
Free | verb nif
to redeem oneself, to reclaim oneself = action by which humans who have been enslaved regain their freedom, which is normally achieved by paying a price
Free | verb qal, verb nif
to redeem, to reclaim = causative action by which humans cause a person, animal, or inanimate object that has become someone else's property to be restored to its original state, which is normally achieved by paying a price
LEV 25:25 · LEV 25:30 · LEV 25:33 · LEV 25:48 · LEV 25:49 · LEV 25:49 · LEV 25:54 · LEV 27:13 · LEV 27:13 · LEV 27:15 · LEV 27:19 · LEV 27:19 · LEV 27:20 · LEV 27:20 · LEV 27:27 · LEV 27:28 · LEV 27:31 · LEV 27:31 · LEV 27:33 · RUT 3:13 · RUT 3:13 · RUT 3:13 · RUT 3:13 · RUT 4:4 · RUT 4:4 · RUT 4:4 · RUT 4:4 · RUT 4:4 · RUT 4:6 · RUT 4:6 · RUT 4:6 · JOB 3:5 · ISA 52:3
People | verb qal
kinship-redeemer, to fulfil one's duty as kinsman, avenger = a person with the duty to help close relatives regain possession of objects that used to be theirs but that have become someone else's property, which may include their own personal freedom; this person also has the responsibility to avenge the death of a relative, which can also be seen as an act of redemption
LEV 25:25 · LEV 25:26 · NUM 5:8 · NUM 35:12 · NUM 35:19 · NUM 35:21 · NUM 35:24 · NUM 35:25 · NUM 35:27 · NUM 35:27 · DEU 19:6 · DEU 19:12 · JOS 20:3 · JOS 20:5 · JOS 20:9 · RUT 2:20 · RUT 3:9 · RUT 3:12 · RUT 3:12 · RUT 4:1 · RUT 4:3 · RUT 4:6 · RUT 4:8 · RUT 4:14 · 2SA 14:11 · 1KI 16:11
Safe | verb qal | ≈ ישׁע · נצל · פדה · קנה
to redeem, to deliver = causative action by which humans or deity deliver an individual or group of people from the power of someone else or from difficult circumstances, ► which usually implies that the one who performed the act of deliverance has the right to claim the ones he delivered for himself
GEN 48:16 · EXO 6:6 · EXO 15:13 · JOB 19:25 · PSA 19:15 · PSA 69:19 · PSA 72:14 · PSA 74:2 · PSA 77:16 · PSA 78:35 · PSA 103:4 · PSA 106:10 · PSA 107:2 · PSA 107:2 · PSA 119:154 · PRO 23:11 · ISA 35:9 · ISA 41:14 · ISA 43:1 · ISA 43:14 · ISA 44:6 · ISA 44:22 · ISA 44:23 · ISA 44:24 · ISA 47:4 · ISA 48:17 · ISA 48:20 · ISA 49:7 · ISA 49:26 · ISA 51:10 · ISA 52:9 · ISA 54:5 · ISA 54:8 · ISA 59:20 · ISA 60:16 · ISA 62:12 · ISA 63:9 · ISA 63:16 · JER 31:11 · JER 50:34 · LAM 3:58 · HOS 13:14 · MIC 4:10
verb · גֹּעַל
Unclean | verb nif, verb hit
to defile oneself = action by which humans cause themselves to be physically contaminated ◄ by getting in direct contact with unclean objects, such as unclean food and blood
Unclean | verb pi, verb pu'al, verb hif
to stain, to pollute = causative action by which humans cause an object to be physically contaminated ◄ by causing it to get in direct contact with dirt or other unclean objects
Evil | verb nif | ≈ מרא
to defile oneself = action by which humans cause themselves to be morally contaminated ◄ by their evil deeds
1 MAL 1:7 LXX "ἠλισγήσαμεν αὐτούς" RSV NRSV "polluted it" | MT HOTTP-B NIV NJB "defiled you" NJPS "defiled You" GNT "failed to respect you" CEV "embarrassed you" ESV "polluted you"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[גָּאַל] vb. defile, late Niph. be defiled
Pi. pollute, desecrate
Pu. and they were desecrated out of the priesthood
Hiph. I have polluted, i.e. stained, all my raiment.
Hithp. defile himself
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