Sister-in-law
יְבֵ֫מֶתStrong’s H2994yevemet (ye-ve-met)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yevemet is the Hebrew word usually translated “brother s wife his” and “sister-in-law your”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.”
Meaning
- Sister-in-law, brother's wife, brother's widow
How it's translated
- brother s wife his 3
- sister-in-law your 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
- Ruth 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 25:9Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother’s house.
- Ruth 1:15And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
Hebrew dictionary
יְבֵ֫מֶת yevemet · sister-in-law
sister-in-law, brother's wife, brother's widow
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sisterinlaw” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SISTER-IN-LAW, noun
A husband's or wife's sister.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.