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# מַמְזֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4464

**bastard** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

bastard [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4464/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַמְזֵר: n.m. bastard child of incest [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4464/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. bastard, specif. child of incest (NH id. (v. Levy), מַמְזֵרוּת incest; Aramaic (loan-word) מַמְזֵרָא bastard):— lit. bastard, Dt 23:3 (v. Dr). perhaps fig. coll., of mixed population Zc 9:6 𝔊 ἀλλογενεῖς (cf. also GeiUrschrift, 52 f.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a bastard (1); a mixed population (1).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 9:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.9.6/#tree)

וְיָשַׁ֥ב מַמְזֵ֖ר בְּאַשְׁדּ֑וֹד וְהִכְרַתִּ֖י גְּא֥וֹן פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.dwell a.mixed.population in Ashdod and I.will.cut.off the.pride of.\[the\].Philistines

*JPS 1917:* And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

[Deuteronomy 23:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.3/#tree)

לֹא־יָבֹ֥א מַמְזֵ֖ר בִּקְהַ֣ל יְהוָ֑ה גַּ֚ם דּ֣וֹר עֲשִׂירִ֔י לֹא־יָ֥בֹא ל֖וֹ בִּקְהַ֥ל יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* not he.will.go a.bastard in the.assembly of.Yahweh also a.generation tenth not it.will.go of him in the.assembly of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of the LORD.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4464/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).