"levir" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Late Latin lēvir",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Late Latin lēvir.",
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      "form": "levirs",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 236:",
          "text": "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 penalty, according to Lev. 20:10 and Deut. 22:22.",
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          "ref": "2008, Deborah L. Ellens, Women in the Sex Texts of Leviticus and Deuteronomy: A Comparative Conceptual Analysis, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 261:",
          "text": "Levirate marriage protects a levir's sexual property and a dead man's entitlement. The former, however, serves the latter.",
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        "A husband's brother."
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  "word": "levir"
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Late Latin lēvir.",
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          "text": "Levirate marriage protects a levir's sexual property and a dead man's entitlement. The former, however, serves the latter.",
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        "A husband's brother."
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