बाइबिल की संस्था जिससे भाई की रेखा को बनाए रखने के लिए एक आदमी को अपने बचपन के भाई की विधवा से शादी करनी चाहिए

Noun:

लेविरैट,

levirate's Usage Examples:

The well-known custom which gives the nearest heir of the dead a right to inherit the widow is naturally distinct from the levirate, where it is the brother's duty to marry his widowed sister-in-law if childless, and where the eldest son succeeds to the name and inheritance of the deceased.

levirate law is being referred to here.

levirate marriage) in order to re-marry!

(I) Yebamoth (" sisters-in-law "), on the levirate, 'c. (2) Kahl - lb - 6th (" marriage contracts "), rights and duties of husband and wife.

Naomi, who had realized the impossibility of the levirate in her case (i.

(Compare Levirate).

In ecclesiastical legend and 2 For the principle of the Levirate illustrated in Gen.

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Papers on "The Levirate and Polyandry," following up the line of his previous investigations (Fortnightly Review, 1877), were the last work he was able to publish.

Although the levirate still continued (Matt.

levirate's Meaning':

the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line

Synonyms:

institution,

Antonyms:

finish,