King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4464
Transliteration: 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
Word 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).