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# יְבֵמֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2994

**sister-in-law** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sister-in-law [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2994/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְבֵ֫מֶת: n.f. sister-in-law [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2994/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sister-in-law (NH יְבָמָה, 𝔗 יְבַמְתָּא, יְבִימְתָּא; Syriac ܝܺܒܰܡܬܳܐ )—only sf. יְבִמְתּוֹ Dt 25:7(×2), 9 his brother’s wife (widow), (cf. Gn 38:8) in levirate law; יְבִמְתֵּךְ Ru 1:15(×2) thy husband’s brother’s wife.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wife (3); sister-in-law (2).

## In the verses

[Ruth 1:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.15/#tree)

וַתֹּ֗אמֶר הִנֵּה֙ שָׁ֣בָה יְבִמְתֵּ֔ךְ אֶל־עַמָּ֖הּ וְאֶל־אֱלֹהֶ֑יהָ שׁ֖וּבִי אַחֲרֵ֥י יְבִמְתֵּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and she.said there! she.has.returned sister-in-law your to people her and to gods her go.back after sister-in-law your

*JPS 1917:* And she said: 'Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her god; return thou after thy sister-in-law.'

[Deuteronomy 25:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.7/#tree)

וְאִם־לֹ֤א יַחְפֹּץ֙ הָאִ֔ישׁ לָקַ֖חַת אֶת־יְבִמְתּ֑וֹ וְעָלְתָה֩ יְבִמְתּ֨וֹ הַשַּׁ֜עְרָה אֶל־הַזְּקֵנִ֗ים וְאָֽמְרָה֙ מֵאֵ֨ין יְבָמִ֜י לְהָקִ֨ים לְאָחִ֥יו שֵׁם֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א אָבָ֖ה יַבְּמִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and if not he.will.desire the man to take (et) wife his.brother's and she.will.go.up wife his.brother's to the gate to the elders and she.will.say he.has.refused brother my.husband's to establish for brother his a.name in Israel not he.was.willing to act.as.a.husband's.brother.for.me

*JPS 1917:* And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say: 'My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother unto me.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2994.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2994/): 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).