Original Word: ἐπιγαμβρεύω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: epigambreuó
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-gam-bryoo'-o)
Short Definition: I marry a deceased brother's wife
Definition: I take to wife after, marry a deceased brother's wife.STRONGS NT 1918: ἐπιγαμβρεύω

ἐπιγαμβρεύω: future ἐπιγαμβρεύσω; to be related to by marriage, enter into affinity with;

1. The Sept. for הִתְחַתֵּן, to become anyone's father-in-law or son-in-law: τίνι, Genesis 34:9; 1 Samuel 18:22ff; 2 Chronicles 18:1; 2 Esdr. 9:14; 1 Macc. 10:54, 56.

2. τινα, for יִבֵּם, to marry the widow of a brother who has died childless: Genesis 38:8; Matthew 22:24, where allusion is made to the levirate law recorded in Deuteronomy 25:5-10; cf. Winers RWB, under the word Leviratsehe; (BB. DD., under the word ). (Not found in native Greek authors (except sehol. ad Euripides, Or. 574ff; cf. with 26).)

marry.

From epi and a derivative of gamos; to form affinity with, i.e. (specially) in a levirate way -- marry.

see GREEK epi

see GREEK gamos

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