יָבַם
yavam · perform levirate duty
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2992 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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yavam (יָבַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “perform levirate duty”.
Do the duty of a brother-in-law: marry the widow of a brother who died childless, to give him offspring.
How to say it
ya·vam
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To marry the widow of a man's sibling who died childless.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 38:8
Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
- Deuteronomy 25:5
If brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not belong, outside the family, to a strange man. Her brother-in-law shall go in to her and take her for himself as a wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her.
- Deuteronomy 25:7
But if the man does not want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and say, “My brother-in-law refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”