goel

Meanings

Adjective

Noun

  • A person who, as the nearest relative of another, has certain obligations toward them, such as having to free them from slavery, to repurchase their property if sold through poverty, and to avenge their murder.

Origin

  • Compare yellow.
  • Borrowed from Hebrew גָּאַל

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