יָבָם
yâbâm · H2993 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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brother-in-law
Brother of a woman's husband
ExamplesDeuteronomy 25:5 “When brothers live together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall have relations with her and take her to himself as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הּher 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Relatives001001003012
- יָבָם names a husband's brother, the male relative obligated under levirate law to marry his deceased brother's childless widow.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2993. yabam [יָבָם] noun masculine husband's brother (Late Hebrew id.; יַבְמָא ᵑ7; see…
[יָבָם] noun masculine husband's brother (Late Hebrew id.; יַבְמָא ᵑ7; see LagM ii. 78) — only suffix יְבֶמִי Deu 25:7, יְבָמָהּ Deu 25:5, in law of levirate marriage (compare Gen 38:8; see also DrDeu 25:5-10).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), 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
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