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title: יָבָם — husband’s brother · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָבָם (2993), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: husband’s brother. BDB 1906: n.m. husband’s brother. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָבָם

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«יָבָם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **husband’s brother** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2993 · **BDB:** יָבָם

### Glosses

brother (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָבָם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2993/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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