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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #2993 - יָבָם

Transliteration

yâbâm

Phonetics

yaw-bawm'

Root Word (Etymology)

from (the orig. of) (H2992)

Parts of Speech

Noun Masculine

TWOT

836a

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) brother-in-law, husband’s brother

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 80 ‑ ἀδελφός (ad‑el‑fos'); 435 ‑ ἀνήρ (an'‑ayr);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (2)

Deuteronomy 2

NAS (4)

Deuteronomy 4

HCS (1)

Deuteronomy 1

BSB (2)

Deuteronomy 2

ESV (2)

Deuteronomy 2

WEB (3)

Deuteronomy 3

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

1036) m b (במ BM) AC: ? CO: High AB: ?: Anything that is tall or high.

G) m e b (בהמ BHM) AC: ? CO: Beast AB: ?: A tall creature.

N^f1) e m e b (בהמה BHMH) - Beast: KJV (190): beast, cattle - Strongs: H929 (בְּהֵמָה), H930 (בְּהֵמוֹת)

H) e m b (במה BMH) AC: ? CO: High AB: ?

N^f ) e m b (במה BMH) - High Place: KJV (102): high place, heights, wave - Strongs: H1116 (בּוּם)

L) m b i (יבמ YBM) AC: Marry CO: Brother-in-law AB: ?: When a husband dies his brother takes his place as his sister-in-laws husband. Any children born to him will be of his brothers line in order to continue, lift up, his family.

V) m b i (יבמ YBM) - Marry: The marrying of ones sister-in-law as the next of kin. KJV (3): (vf: Piel) marry - Strongs: H2992 (יָבַם)

N^m) m b i (יבמ YBM) - Brother-in-law: KJV (2): husbands brother - Strongs: H2993 (יָבָם)

N^f2) t m b i (יבמת YBMT) - Sister-in-law: KJV (5): brothers wife, sister in law - Strongs: H2994 (יְבָמָה)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

[יָבָם] noun masculine husband's brother (Late Hebrew id.; ᵑ7יַבְמָא; see Lag^{M ii. 78}) — only suffix יְבֶמִי Deuteronomy 25:7, יְבָמָהּ Deuteronomy 25:5, in law of levirate marriage (compare Genesis 38:8; see also Dr^{Deuteronomy 25:5-10}).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

יָבָם m. levir, a husband’s brother, who, by the law of Moses, was required to marry the wife of his brother who had died without children, -Deut. 25:59. Hence the denominative

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List of Word Forms

יְבָמִ֜י יְבָמָהּ֙ יבמה יבמי yə·ḇā·māh yə·ḇā·mî yəḇāmāh yəḇāmî yevaMah yevaMi