Strong's Hebrew · H2992
יָבַם
yâbam · yaw-bam'
perform the duty of a husband's brother, marry.
Definition
to marry a (deceased) brother's widow
Derivation
a primitive root of doubtful meaning; used only as a denominative from H2993 (יָבָם);
Appears 3 times in Scripture
“Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.””
“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.””
“When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).