Bastard
מַמְזֵרStrong’s H4464mamzer (mam-zer)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mamzer is the Hebrew word usually translated “bastard” and “mixed population”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.”
Meaning
- Bastard, child of incest, illegitimate childbastard · mixed population (fig.) · born of a Jewish father and a heathen mother or visa versa
How it's translated
- a bastard 1
- a mixed population 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- Zechariah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַמְזֵר mamzer · bastard
1) bastard, child of incest, illegitimate child 1a) bastard 1b) mixed population (fig.) 1c) born of a Jewish father and a heathen mother or visa versa
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bastard” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
B'ASTARD, noun
A natural child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or spurious child. By the civil and canon laws, a bastard becomes a legitimate child, by the intermarriage of the parents, at any future time. But by the laws of this country, as by those of England, a child, to be legitimate, must at least be born after the lawful marriage.
All definitions and other forms of “bastard”
B'ASTARD, noun
A kind of sweet wine. [Not in use.]
B'ASTARD, adjective
Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate.
- Spurious;; not genuine; false; supposititious; adulterate.
B'ASTARD, verb transitive
To make or determine to be a bastard
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.