Lexic.us

Definition of Mamzer

1. n. A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard.

Definition of Mamzer

1. Noun. a child who is born out of wedlock, from an incestuous relationship or from parents of different faiths; a bastard ¹

2. Noun. a contemptible person, an asshole, a jerk ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mamzer

1. a bastard [n -S] - See also: bastard

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mamzer

Literary usage of Mamzer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Jewish Law of Marriage and Divorce in Ancient and Modern Times, and Its by Moses Mielziner (1884)
"The word mamzer, usually translated BASTARD, denotes, according to ... The Mosaic Law : " A mamzer shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord ..."

2. The Jewish Law of Divorce According to Bible and Talmud with Some Reference by David Werner Amram (1896)
"Incest—Marriage of Hebrew and Heathen—The Great Reform of Ezra -mamzer—Nethin Adulteress and Paramour—The Ordeal of the Bitter Waters—Lepers—Forbidden ..."

3. The Da Vinci Code on Trial: Filtering Fact from Fiction by Stephen Clark (2005)
"A mamzer could not marry a non-mamzer.27 Given the 'widespread suspicion that ... One who was illegitimate [but had not been declared to be a mamzer] could ..."

4. Introduction to the Talmud: Historical and Literary Introduction, Legal by Moses Mielziner (1903)
"XXIII, 3, the law provides that a mamzer, that is, one born of incest, "shall not enter the congregation of the Lord, even to the tenth generation. ..."

5. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"284) for "Bastard" uses the equivalent word "mamzer"— " Normannorum duels filius mamzer Guillelmus." It has been often said that William himself used the ..."

6. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1902)
"... a mamzer differently, as meaning a child born of a marriage of a non-Jew or a slave with a Jewess (see references in Geiger, Urschrift, 54). ..."

Other Resources: