Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2994
יְבֵמֶת
Yebemethyeb-ay'-meth
sister-in-law
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Yᵉbêmeth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2994is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2994
a sister-in-law
The King James renders it: brother's wife, sister in law.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Yebemeth is rendered "sister-in-law". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 25:7But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
Deuteronomy 25:7יְבִמְתּ֑וֹ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- brother's wife his3
- sister-in-law your2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יְבִמְתּ֑וֹ1
- יְבִמְתּ֨וֹ1
- יְבִמְתּ֣וֹ1
- יְבִמְתֵּ֔ךְ1
- יְבִמְתֵּֽךְ׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HNcfsc/Sp3ms
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2HNcfsc/Sp2fs
Deuteronomy
three uses
But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
- יְבִמְתּ֑וֹyevimtonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: brother's wife his
- יְבִמְתּ֨וֹyevimtonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: brother's wife his
his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”
- יְבִמְתּ֣וֹyevimtonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: brother's wife his
Ruth
two uses
“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
- יְבִמְתֵּ֔ךְyevimtekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: sister-in-law your
- יְבִמְתֵּֽךְ׃yevimtekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: sister-in-law your
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.