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# יָבָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2993

**husband’s brother** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

husband’s brother [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2993/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָבָם: n.m. husband’s brother [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2993/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. husband’s brother (NH id.; 𝔗 יַבְמָא; v. LagM ii. 78)—only sf. יְבָמִי Dt 25:7, יְבָמָהּ 25:5, in law of levirate marriage (cf. Gn 38:8; v. also Dr Dt 25:5–10).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: brother (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 25:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.5/#tree)

כִּֽי־יֵשְׁב֨וּ אַחִ֜ים יַחְדָּ֗ו וּמֵ֨ת אַחַ֤ד מֵהֶם֙ וּבֵ֣ן אֵֽין־ל֔וֹ לֹֽא־תִהְיֶ֧ה אֵֽשֶׁת־הַמֵּ֛ת הַח֖וּצָה לְאִ֣ישׁ זָ֑ר יְבָמָהּ֙ יָבֹ֣א עָלֶ֔יהָ וּלְקָחָ֥הּ ל֛וֹ לְאִשָּׁ֖ה וְיִבְּמָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they.will.dwell brothers together and he.will.die one of them and a.son there.\[belongs\].not to him not she.will.belong the.wife of the.dead.\[man\] to the outside to a.man strange brother her.husband's he.will.go on her and he will.take.her for himself to a.wife and he will.act.as.a.husband's.brother.for.her

*JPS 1917:* If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not be married abroad unto one not of his kin; her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2993.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2993/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).