Quick Definition
ἐπιγαμβρεύω v. I marry a deceased brother’s wife
Strong's Definition
to form affinity with, i.e. (specially) in a levirate way
Derivation: from G1909 (ἐπί) and a derivative of G1062 (γάμος);
KJV Usage: marry
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐπι-γαμβρεύω : fut. ἐπιγαμβρεύσω; to be related to by marriage, enter into affinity with; 1. Sept. for jANNA, to become any one’s father-in-law or son-in-law: τινί, Gen. xxxiv. 9; 1S. xviii. 22 sqq.; 2 Chr. xviii.1; 2 Esdr. ix. 14; 1 Mace. x. 54, 56. 2. τινά, for 03°, to marry the widow of a brother who has died childless: Gen. xxxviii. 8; Mt. xxii. 24, where allusion is made to the levirate law recorded in Deut. xxv. 5-10; οἵ. Win. RWB. s. ν. Leviratsehe; [BB. DD. 5. v. Marriage]. (Not found in native Grk. auth. [exe. schol. ad Eur. Or. 574 sqq.; cf. W. 26].)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐπιγαμβρεύω epigambreuō 1x
to marry a wife by the law of affinity, Mt. 22:24*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† ἐπι-γαμβρεύω
(< γαμβρός, a connection by marriage) [in LXX: Ge 34:9, I Ki 18:21 ff., II Ch 18:1, Es 9:14 (חָתַן hithp.), Ge 38:8 R (יָבַם pi.), I Mac 10:54, 56 * ;]
to enter into affinity with: c. dat. (LXX, ll. c., exc. Ge 38:8).
to marry (as deceased husband's next of kin, cf. Ge 38:8): c. acc, Mt 22:24.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐπιγαμβρεύω. For this ¢erminus technicus which is used c. acc. in sense of ‘‘take to wife after” in Mt 2274, under the influence of Gen 388, see Anz Sudsidia, p. 378. Elsewhere in the LXX (e.g. 1 Kings 1833) it represents the Heb. JN = “ become son-in-law.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἐπιγαμβρεύω (epigambreuō) — to marry. ἐπιγαμβρ-εύω, become son-in-law, [LXX+6th c.AD+]
2. become father-in-law, [LXX]
II. ἐ. γυναῖκα take a woman to wife as her husband's next of kin, [LXX+NT]
III. middle, intermarry with, [LXX]