levir

Noun

1. A husband's brother.
   • The tie between the childless widow and the levir exists automatically from the moment of widowhood. Thus a sexual relationship with anyone other than the levir would be adulterous, an offense punishable by the death...
   • Levirate marriage protects a levir's sexual property and a dead man's entitlement. The former, however, serves the latter. - 2008, Deborah L. Ellens, Women in the Sex Texts of Leviticus and Deuteronomy: A Comparative...