מַמְזֵר
mamzêr · H4464 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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illegitimate child, bastard, mongrel
A child born out of wedlock or from an unlawful marriage
ExamplesDeuteronomy 23:2 “No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Zechariah 9:6 And a people of mixed origins will live in Ashdod, And I will eliminate the pride of the Philistines.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 1
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- νόθος nóthos · G3541 · illegitimate, bastard
- Greek νόθος is the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew מַמְזֵר in LXX contexts, denoting one born out of lawful wedlock or of illegitimate/mixed union.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- מַמְזֵר denotes a person of illegitimate birth, a kinship-status term marking an irregular lineage relationship that bars such a person and his descendants from the assembly of the LORD.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4464. mamzer מַמְזֵר noun masculine bastard, specifically child of incest (Late Hebrew…
מַמְזֵר noun masculine bastard, specifically child of incest (Late Hebrew id. (see Levy), מַמְזֵרוּת incest; Aramaic (loan-word) מַמְזֵרָא bastard): —
1 literally bastard, Deu 23:3 (see Dr).
2 perhaps figurative collective, of mixed population Zec 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).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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