Strong's Hebrew · H2994

H2994 Yᵉbêmeth

יְבֵמֶת

yeb-ay'-meth

brother's wife, sister in law.

When Yᵉbêmeth is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

a sister-in-law

Derivation

feminine participle of H2992 (יָבַם);

Appears 5 times in Scripture

Ruth 1:15

“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”

Deuteronomy 25:9

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.”

Deuteronomy 25:7

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 Yᵉbêmeth is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what Yᵉbêmeth means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Ruth 1:15 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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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).

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