sister-in-law, brother's wife, brother's widow
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ye.ve.met · sister-in-law · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Deuteronomy 25:7 · יְבִמְתּ֑וֹ · יְבִמְתּ֨וֹ‘And if the man doth not delight to take his brother’s wife, then hath his brother’s wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband’s brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband’s brother;Deuteronomy 25:9 · יְבִמְתּ֣וֹ‘Then hath his brother’s wife drawn nigh unto him, before the eyes of the elders, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who doth not build up the house of his brother;Ruth 1:15 · יְבִמְתֵּ֔ךְ · יְבִמְתֵּֽךְ׃And she saith, ‘Lo, thy sister-in-law hath turned back unto her people, and unto her god, turn thou back after thy sister-in-law.’