ἐπιγαμβρεύω
epigambreúō · G1918 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to marry
To marry the childless widow of one's brother, the so-called levirate marriage
ExamplesMatthew 22:24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother.’
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀδελφόςbrother 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- γυνήwoman, wife 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- יָבַם yâbam · H2992 · perform the duty of a husband's brother, marry
- Hebrew term for the levirate marriage duty prescribed in Deuteronomy 25:5-10, the precise institution ἐπιγαμβρεύω references in its sole NT occurrence (Matthew 22:24). Both denote the specific custom of a man marrying his deceased brother's widow to raise up offspring for the deceased.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To marry34.71
- This verb describes the levirate obligation of a surviving brother to marry his deceased brother's childless widow, used of the Sadducees' test case citing Moses' teaching that a man's brother shall marry his widow to raise up offspring — "his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother" (Matthew 22:24).
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : future ἐπιγαμβρεύσω; to be related to by marriage, enter into affinity with; 1. The…
1. The Sept. for הִתְחַתֵּן, to become anyone's father-in-law or son-in-law: τίνι, Gen 34:9; 1 Sam 18:22ff; 2 Chr 18:1; 2 Chr 18:2 Esdr. 9:14; 1 Macc. 10:54, 56.
2. τινα, for יִבֵּם, to marry the widow of a brother who has died childless: Gen 38:8; Mt 22:24, where allusion is made to the levirate law recorded in Deut 25:5-10; cf. Winers RWB, under the word Leviratsehe; (BB. DD., under the word ). (Not found in native Greek authors (except sehol. ad Euripides, Or. 574ff; cf. with 26).)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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