ייבם
Hebrew
| Root |
|---|
| י־ב־ם |
Verb
ייבם \ יִבֵּם • (yibém) (pi'el construction)
- (Jewish law) to take as a wife the childless widow of one's deceased brother
- Deuteronomy 25:5, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- כִּי־יֵשְׁבוּ אַחִים יַחְדָּו וּמֵת אַחַד מֵהֶם וּבֵן אֵין־לוֹ לֹא־תִהְיֶה אֵשֶׁת־הַמֵּת הַחוּצָה לְאִישׁ זָר יְבָמָהּ יָבֹא עָלֶיהָ וּלְקָחָהּ לוֹ לְאִשָּׁה וְיִבְּמָהּ׃
- ki-yesh'vú 'akhím yakhdáv umét 'akhád mehém uvén 'ein-ló lo-tihyé 'eshet-hamét hakhútsa l'ísh zár y'vamáh yavó 'aléha ul'kakháh ló l'ishá v'yib'máh.
kī-yēšəḇū ʾaḥīm yaḥdāw ūmēṯ ʾaḥaḏ mēhem ūḇēn ʾēn-lō lō-ṯihye ʾēšeṯ-hammēṯ haḥū́ṣā ləʾīš zār yəḇāmāh yāḇō ʿāléhā ūləqāḥāh lō ləʾiššā wəyibbəmāh. - 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.
- ki-yesh'vú 'akhím yakhdáv umét 'akhád mehém uvén 'ein-ló lo-tihyé 'eshet-hamét hakhútsa l'ísh zár y'vamáh yavó 'aléha ul'kakháh ló l'ishá v'yib'máh.
- Deuteronomy 25:5, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
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