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Definition of Mamzers
1. mamzer [n] - See also: mamzer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mamzers
Literary usage of Mamzers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Origines Hebrææ: the antiquities of the Hebrew republick by Thomas Lewis (1835)
"There were some also of these mamzers, who were not evidently born of incestuous
or other ... But proselytes of justice, they say, might marry with mamzers; ..."
2. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"But whatever become of these mamzers, which do thus exclude themselves from the
congregation of God, it were happy if all the true and acknowledged sons of ..."
3. The Jewish Law of Marriage and Divorce in Ancient and Modern Times, and Its by Moses Mielziner (1884)
"(2) FOUNDLINGS and persons whose paternal descent is unknown are regarded in the
Rabbinical Law as doubted mamzers and subject to the same restrictions as ..."
4. Bibliothèque sacrée, ou Dictionnaire universel historique, dogmatique by Charles Louis Richard (1824)
"Les rabbins distinguent plusieurs sortes de mamzers : 1°. ... Cependant, comme
il s'est trouvé de ces mamzers admis non-seule- 4 ..."