Word

יְבֵמֶת

Yᵉbêmeth · H2994 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

sister-in-law

Wife of a man's brother

Examples
Deuteronomy 25:7 “But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s widow, then his brother’s widow shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’
Deuteronomy 25:9 then his brother’s widow shall come up to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, ‘This is what is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house!’
sister-in-law

Wife of the brother of a woman's husband

Examples
Ruth 1:15 Then she said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”

How it’s used In 4 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

5 occurrences in 2 groups

הוּhis 3
ךְyour 2

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

נָגַשׁto come near, to bring near 1
עָלָהto go up 1
שׁוּבto return, to turn back 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אַחַרafter, behind 2

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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Relatives001001003012: יְבֵמֶת names a brother's widow or sister-in-law, the female relative a surviving brother is obligated to marry under levirate law (Deuteronomy 25:7-9).

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

יָבַם yâbam · H2992 · perform the duty of a husband's brother, marry · 4×יְבֵמֶתYᵉbêmeth · H2994יָבָם yâbâm · H2993 · brother-in-law · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2994. yebemeth [יְבֵ֫מֶת] noun feminine sister-in-law (Late Hebrew יְבִּימְתָּא…

H2994. yebemeth
[יְבֵ֫מֶת] noun feminine sister-in-law (Late Hebrew יְבִּימְתָּא יְבַמְתָּא, ᵑ7 יְבָמָה,; Syriac ) — only suffix יְבִמְתּו Deu 25:7 (twice in verse); Deu 25:9 his brother's wife (widow), (compare Gen 38:8) in levirate law; יְבִמְתֵּךְ Rth 1:15 (twice in verse) thy husband's brother's wife.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Relatives5 occurrences

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