English Explanatory Dictionary

blood avenger

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

one who takes revenge on behalf of a killed person, as in a blood feud

Word forms

blood avenger blood avengers blood-avenger avenger of blood

Etymology

Eventually probably after Biblical Hebrew גֹּאֵל דָם (gōʾēl dām).

Related words

blood vengeance

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