ΕΠΙΓΑΜΒΡΕΥΣΑΙ, επιγαμβρευσαι
EPIGAMBREUSAI, epigambreusai
Sounds Like: ep-ee-gam-BREV-sai
Translations: to marry a brother's widow, to perform the duty of a levirate marriage, to take a brother's wife, to marry a sister-in-law
From the root: ΕΠΙΓΑΜΒΡΕΥΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This verb refers to the specific act of a man marrying his deceased brother's widow, a practice known as levirate marriage. It describes the fulfillment of a legal or customary obligation to raise offspring for the deceased brother.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G1961 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 2 Esdras — 9:14
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΓΑΜΒΡΕΥΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΠΕΓΑΜΒΡΕΥΣΑΤΟ — married into the family, became a son-in-law, formed a marriage alliance
- ἘΠΙΓΑΜΒΡΕΥΣΑΙ — to become a son-in-law, to marry into a family, to marry a daughter
- ἘΠΙΓΑΜΒΡΕΥΣΑΤΕ — marry, take as son-in-law, become son-in-law to
- ἘΠΙΓΑΜΒΡΕΥΣΕΙ — marry, take as a wife, perform the duty of a brother-in-law
- ἘΠΙΓΑΜΒΡΕΥΣΩ — I will become a son-in-law, I will marry into the family, I will become related by marriage
- ΕΠΕΓΑΜΒΡΕΥΣΑΤΟ — he married, he married the brother's wife, he took as a brother-in-law
- ΕΠΙΓΑΜΒΡΕΥΣΙ — marry, take as a son-in-law, marry a brother's widow
- ΕΠΙΓΑΜΒΡΕΥΣΩ — I will marry, I will marry a brother's widow, I will marry a sister-in-law
- ΕΠΙΓΑΜΒΡΕΥΩ — to marry a brother's widow, to marry a sister-in-law, to perform the duty of a levirate marriage
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