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Levirate marriage is a type of
marriage in
which the
brother of a
deceased man is
obliged to
marry his brother's widow.
Levirate marriage has been practiced...
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Yibbum (pronounced [jibum], Hebrew: ייבום) is the form of
levirate marriage found in Judaism. As
specified by
Deuteronomy 25:5–10, the
brother of a man...
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according to the
custom of
levirate marriage with the late Er's wife Tamar, Onan
instead refused to
perform his duty as a
levirate and "spilled his seed on...
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thinks that the
Niyoga is of a
later date than the
Levirate, but J. D.
Mayne justified regarding the
Levirate as
merely an
enlarged form of the Niyoga, that...
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adoptive father; both
Joseph and Mary are
taken to be David's descendants.
Levirate marriage,
through which an
individual (such as Joseph) may have two legal...
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close relative of Naomi's husband's family, is
therefore obliged by the
levirate law to
marry Ruth, Mahlon's widow, to
carry on his family's inheritance...
- have to
perform a
levirate marriage?” “She
neither performs halitzah nor does she enter into
levirate marriage, as the
mitzvah of
levirate marriage applies...
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death of his wife or if his wife has
proven infertile. The
opposite is
levirate marriage. From an
anthropological standpoint, this type of
marriage strengthens...
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brother Zeke is
called upon to
replace his
brother and
marry Havana in a
levirate marriage. Zeke
already hates Havana because he
believes that she influences...
- in a woman's
offspring even if her
husband (a
lineage member)
deceases (
Levirate marriage). In
referring to "men (male or female)", Bell is
referring to...
