2994 - yebemeth

Strong's Concordance

Original word: יְבֶ֫מֶת
Transliteration: yebemeth
Definition (short): wife
Definition (full): a sister-in-law

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from the same as yabam
Definition: sister-in-law
NASB Translation: brother's wife (2), sister-in-law (2), wife (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Feminine participle of yabam; a sister-in-law -- brother's wife, sister in law.

see HEBREW yabam

References

Strong's 2994: 5 Occurrences
KJV: 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.
NASB: "But if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'
KJV: Then 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.
NASB: then his brother's wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, 'Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'
KJV: And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
NASB: Then she said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; return after your sister-in-law."