Definitions
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- noun A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard.
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- noun a child who is born out of
wedlock , from anincestuous relationship or from parents of differentfaiths ; abastard - noun a
contemptible person, anasshole , ajerk
Etymologies
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Examples
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A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision
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A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth generation.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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In the Old Testament the rendering of the Hebrew word mamzer ', which means "polluted."
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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If the get is cancelled, she will be seen as legally still married to her first husband-- and the child will be considered a "mamzer" who, under Jewish religious law, is limited in who he or she can marry.
Archive 2007-02-01 Howard M. Friedman 2007
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But HE made the SOB entirely sympathetic and you felt bad that this no-good-schmuck-mamzer was getting his comeuppance.
The Importance of Not Being Too Earnest at SF Novelists 2009
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In his responsum, Radbaz wrote that Simhah “exaggerated on the measures to be taken when writing that [the wifebeater] should be forced by non-Jews (akum) to divorce his wife ... because [if she remarries] this could result in the offspring [of the illegal marriage, according to Radbaz] being declared illegitimate (mamzer)” (part 4, 157).
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The informants understood that lack of compliance with menstrual laws would produce a mamzer, an idea rejected by normative halakhah.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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(“A mamzer shall not enter the congregation of the Lord” [Mishnah, Yevamot 8: 3; Mishnah, Kiddushin 3: 12]).
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(A mamzer cannot marry within the Jewish community: Deuteronomy 23: 3; Shulhan Arukh, Even ha-Ezer).
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