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יָבָם

ya.vam

brother-in-law

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Strong’s H2993Noun, masculine2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

husband's brother2

In the text

Deuteronomy 25:5יְבָמָהּ
When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[יָבָם] n.m. husband’s brother

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.