Lexical Summary mamzer: a bastard, child of incest Original Word: מַמְזֵרTransliteration: mamzer Phonetic Spelling: (mam-zare') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a bastard, child of incest Meaning: a mongrel, born of a, Jewish father and a, heathen mother Strong's Concordance bastard From an unused root meaning to alienate; a mongrel, i.e. Born of a Jewish father and a heathen mother -- bastard. Brown-Driver-Briggs H4464. mamzer מַמְזֵר noun masculine bastard, specifically child of incest (Late Hebrew id. (see Levy), מַמְזֵרוּת incest; Aramaic (loan-word) מַמְזֵרָא bastard): — 1 literally bastard, Deuteronomy 23:3 (see Dr). 2 perhaps figurative collective, of mixed population Zechariah 9:6 ᵐ5 ἀλλογενεῖς (compare also GeiUrschrift 52f.) II. מזר (√ of following, si vera lectio; possibly = spread out; Aramaic stretch oneself, compare Arabic aequaliter distendit utrem). |
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