מַמְזֵרmamzêr
bastard, specifically child of incest
Pronunciation: mam-zare' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4464
Meanings
1. bastard (Deuteronomy 23:3)
2. perhaps figurative collective, of mixed population (Zechariah 9:6)
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 23:2 “If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the Lord.
- Zechariah 9:6 Foreigners will occupy the city of Ashdod. I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).