יְבָמָה, v. יָבָם) sister-in-law, esp. y’bamah,the widow of a brother who died without issue. Yeb. IV, 10 הי׳ לא וכ׳ a widow must be neither discharged nor married before three months after her husband’s death. Ib. 1 החולץ לִיבֶמְתּוֹ he who discharges his sister-in-law. Ib. 2 הכונס את יבמתו he who marries &c.; a. fr.—Pl. יְבָמוֹת. Ib. V, 3; 5; a. fr.—Y’bamoth (the legal relations between Yabam and Y’bamah), name of a treatise of Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Babli and Y’rushalmi, of the Order of Nashim.