Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #4464 - מַמְזֵר mamzer (a bastard)


Original Word:מַמְזֵר
Transliteration: mamzer
Definition:a bastard, child of incest
Part of Speech:Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:(mam-zare')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

bastard

From an unused root meaning to alienate; a mongrel, i.e. Born of a Jewish father and a heathen mother -- bastard.


Englishman's Concordance

1) bastard, child of incest, illegitimate child
1a) bastard
1b) mixed population (figuratively)
1c) born of a Jewish father and a heathen mother or visa versa
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root meaning to alienate
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1174a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מַמְזֵרnoun masculinebastard, specifically child of incest (Late Hebrew id. (see Levy), מַמְזֵרוּתincest; Aramaic (loan-word) מַמְזֵרָאbastard): —

1 literally bastard, Deuteronomy 23:3 (see Dr).

2 perhaps figurative collective, of mixed population Zechariah 9:6ᵐ5ἀλλογενεῖς (compare also GeiUrschrift 52f.)

II. מזר (√ of following, si vera lectio; possibly=spread out; Aramaic stretch oneself, compare Arabic aequaliter distendit utrem).


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4464. מַמְזֵר (mamzer) — 2 Occurrences

Deuteronomy 23:2
HEB:לֹא־ יָבֹ֥א מַמְזֵ֖ר בִּקְהַ֣ל יְהוָ֑ה
NAS: No one of illegitimate birth shall enter
KJV:A bastard shall not enter
INT: No shall enter one the assembly of the LORD

Zechariah 9:6
HEB: וְיָשַׁ֥ב מַמְזֵ֖ר בְּאַשְׁדּ֑וֹד וְהִכְרַתִּ֖י
NAS:And a mongrel race will dwell
KJV:And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod,
INT: will dwell mongrel Ashdod will cut

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