Bastard

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD, Deuteronomy 23:2

A mamzer shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD

Strong's Lexicon -- 4464 mamzer mam-zare' from an unused root meaning to alienate; a mongrel http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=bastard

Webster's 1828 Dictionary:  MONGREL, a. [See Mingle.] Of a mixed breed; of different kinds.

Oxford English Dictionary

Bastard:  a person of mixed breed (a Griqua. S. Afr. 1814, does not mean that he is illegitimate, but merely that he is of mixed breed; 1589, is Christ descended of bastardisme or no, as you gaue out into the pulpyt); a mongrel, an animal of inferior breed ( 1607, the lesser sort of [elephants] which they call bastards); mongrel, hybrid, of inferior breed (1641 Hynde J. Bruen vii. 27 To beget and bring forth mules, a bastard brood); of or pertaining to a person of mixed breed (1792, those Hottentots, bastard Hottentots, whose race has been intermixed with the slaves brought from the East Indies); a kind of cloth of inferior or mixed quality, or unusual make or size; not genuine, counterfeit, spurious, debased, adulterated, corrupt (1639, with thy bastard bullion thou hast barter'd for wares of price; 1583, he pronounceth the Epistle of James to be a bastard); unauthorized (1558, who soeuer receiueth of a woman, office or authoritie, are adulterous and bastard officers before God); having the appearance of, somewhat resembling, an inferior or less kind of ... not identical with the species which legitimately bear the name (1602, foure more [mouths of the Nile], which they themselues call bastard mouthes), (1640, though she prov'd bastard-bellyed, I will owne her), (1594, the lower part of the ribs are commonly called false ribbes or bastard ribbes). [see photocopy of OED, 2 mb files, first page, second page]

Online Oxford English Dictionary

in a contemptuous sense, = Bad, spurious, bastard, mongrel; esp. in dog-Latin; so dog-English, dog-Greek, dog('s)-logic, dog-rime.

3 Synonyms VILLAIN 1, blackguard, heel, knave, lowlife, miscreant, rascal, rogue, scoundrel, *son of a bitch

Century Dictionary, 1927-1931 -- bas-tard (bas'tard). [OF. bastard (F. batard), <bast, pack-saddle, E. bat⁴.] a. Illegitimage in birth; hence, irregular; mongrel; inferior; spurious; not genuine; specif. of other than the standard form, size, style, etc.

As late as 1931, a bastard is defined as mongrel, which is "the offspring of parents of different races or nationalities".

Merriam Webster Dictionary --Main Entry: mon�grel from Pronunciation: 'm�[ng]-gr&l, 'm&[ng]- Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, probably from mong mixture, short for ymong, from Old English gemong crowd -- more at AMONG Date: 15th century

1. an individual resulting from the interbreeding of diverse breeds or strains; especially : one of unknown ancestry

2. a cross between types of persons or things - mongrel adjective - mon�grel�i�za�tion /"m�[ng]-gr&-l&-'zA-sh&n, "m&[ng]-/ noun - mon�grel�ize /'m�[ng]-gr&-"lIz, 'm&[ng]-/ transitive verb

Text: Synonyms HYBRID, bastard, cross, crossbred, crossbreed, half blood, half-breed, mule

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary in E-sword -- MONGREL, a. [See Mingle.] Of a mixed breed; of different kinds.  MONGREL, n. An animal of a mixed breed.

Dictionary.com -- mamzer - \Mam"zer\, n. [Heb. m['a]mz?r.] A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard. --Deut. xxiii. 2 (Douay version).  http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mamzer

Oxford English Dictionary At the time that the KJV translation was published, a bastard was a "mongrel, hybrid, or inferior breed" thus a bastard at that time was the offspring of mixed race parents, or a product of miscegenation.

http://www.posse-comitatus.org/Bible_Studies/a_closer_look_at_the_seventh_com.htm

Easton's Bible Dictionary -- Bastard means Mongrel -- In the Old Testament the rendering of the Hebrew word 'mamzer'', which means "polluted." In Deu_23:2, it occurs in the ordinary sense of illegitimate offspring. In Zec_9:6, the word is used in the sense of foreigner. From the history of Jephthah we learn that there were bastard offspring among the Jews (Jdg_11:1-7). In Heb_12:8, the word (Gr. nothoi) is used in its ordinary sense, and denotes those who do not share the privileges of God's children.

Comprehensive Lexicon -- Bastard meant mongrel prior to the mid-19th century --  A Comprehensive Lexicon by John Pickering (1847), for the noun moichidios: "bastard, spurious." This Greek word should correctly be translated as mongrel, and a true understanding of the English language reveals that when Pickering, in 1847, used the word bastard, he too meant a mongrel. This was a common understanding of the word in the mid-19th century and before, as we shall prove later. Pickering was not the only one, however, to understand that the word moichidios meant mongrel. In Lexicon Manuale by Cornelius Schrevel (1796), the word moichidios is defined with the Latin word "adulterinus."

Oxford Latin Dictionary, or OLD, adulterinus means: "adulterated, impure." Lewis and Short add: "not full-blooded." Leverett's Lexicon of the Latin Language: "begotten basely, not thorough-bred, not full-blooded, adulterated." Most importantly, however,

A Large Dictionary by Thomas Holyoke (1672) states that adulterinus is equivalent (in the ancient translations and commentaries) to the Hebrew mamzir, which according to Strong's Hebrew Dictionary means "a mongrel." This dictionary also states in the same definition that the Greek moichikos is equivalent to mamzir and also is equivalent to the Greek kibdelos which is defined by LSJ as: "adulterated, base." We will discuss Holyoke's definitions and the word kibdelos in more detail later, but what is important to notice here is that all of these lexical authorities agree that the Latin word adulterinus means "mongrel," and therefore the Greek word moichidios, universally defined by this Latin word, also means mongrel. Pickering's definition of bastard must be understood to have its mid-19th century meaning of mongrel. http://www.christianseparatist.org/sixth/adult&lexic.html

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia -- The bastard race in Zechariah is a mixed population -- bas�tard In Deu_23:2 probably the offspring of an incestuous union, or of a marriage within the prohibited degrees of affinity (Lev_18:6-20; Lev_20:10-21). He and his descendants to the tenth generation are excluded from the assembly of the Lord. (See Driver, at the place). Zechariah (Zec_9:6), after prophesying the overthrow of three Philistine cities, declares of the fourth: "And a bastard (the Revised Version, margin "a bastard race") shall dwell in Ashdod," meaning probably that a "mixed population" (BDB) of aliens shall invade and settle in the capital of the Philistines. In Heb (Zec_12:8) in its proper sense of "born out of wedlock," and therefore not admitted to the privileges of paternal care and responsibility as a legitimate son.

LSJ Lexicon --  LSJ defines Nothos as "bastard, baseborn, cross-bred", definitions which are inexplicably missing from Strong's and Thayer.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Heb 12:7-8

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Strong's Definition

nothos

noth'-os

Of uncertain affinity; a spurious or illegitimate son: - bastard.

1) illegitimate, bastard

2) one born, not in lawful wedlock, but of a concubine or female slave

Encyclopedia Britannica

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With this understanding of the tactics of deception employed in our lexicons, we are now prepared to examine the lexical evidence of the Greek and Latin words associated with the common English translation adultery. We will look first at the Greek evidence.

Any Greek word which contains the prefix moich- belongs to the family of words usually translated adultery. When we look these words up in most any Greek lexicon, all we usually find are definitions which contain the English word adultery. What follows are a few important exceptions with comments.

LSJ (1940), for the verb moichao: "falsify." This definition is supplied by LSJ to help ease the translation of the innumerable Greek passages which cannot in any way be talking about marital infidelity, some of which we will look at later. To falsify something carries the connotation of adulteration or debasement or change.

A Patristic Greek Lexicon by G.W. H. Lampe (1961), for the verb moichaomai: "adulterate." Here Lampe, whose lexicon is entirely concerned with early Christian literature written in Greek, also has to admit that this Greek family of words carried the connotation of adulteration and debasement. When we look up moichao in Griechisches Etymologisches W�rterbuch, a Greek-German Lexicon by Hjalmar Frisk (1973), he defines the word with the German "verf�lschen," which means to adulterate. Adulteration is the process of adding something to something else and debasing it or mingling things together. When we are talking about people being adulterated in the physical sense, we can only be talking about race-mixing or at the very least mingling family lines together and causing confusion in the family regarding issues of paternity. In fact, in my book The Truth Unveiled, the overall definition which is assigned this family of words is, first, to mongrelize or to mix or mingle races, and secondly, to mix or mingle and therefore corrupt seedlines. As we shall see later, however, the idea of mixing or mingling is paramount to truly understanding the definitions and etymology of this moich- family of words. In this definition by Lampe, we see very clearly that early patristic writers understood that this family of words was used for adulteration or mingling.

A Patristic Greek Lexicon by G.W. H. Lampe (1961), for the adjective moichozeuktikos: "of or relating to an adulterous marriage." Again, we see that some of the early Patristic writers spoke of adulterous marriages. The obvious question is, If adultery involves extra-marital sex, then how can a marriage itself be adulterous? Obviously, the emphasis is upon seedline corruption and mingling, and all throughout Greek literature, we find that very often being married is not an issue when the moich- family of words is used.

A Comprehensive Lexicon by John Pickering (1847), for the noun moichidios: "bastard, spurious." This Greek word should correctly be translated as mongrel, and a true understanding of the English language reveals that when Pickering, in 1847, used the word bastard, he too meant a mongrel. This was a common understanding of the word in the mid-19th century and before, as we shall prove later. Pickering was not the only one, however, to understand that the word moichidios meant mongrel. In Lexicon Manuale by
Cornelius Schrevel (1796), the word moichidios is defined with the Latin word "adulterinus." According to the Oxford Latin Dictionary, or OLD, adulterinus means: "adulterated, impure." Lewis and Short add: "not full-blooded." Leverett's Lexicon of the Latin Language: "begotten basely, not thorough-bred, not full-blooded, adulterated." Most importantly, however, A Large Dictionary by Thomas Holyoke (1672) states that adulterinus is equivalent (in the ancient translations and commentaries) to the Hebrew mamzir, which according to Strong's Hebrew Dictionary means "a mongrel." This dictionary also states in the same definition that the Greek moichikos is equivalent to mamzir and also is equivalent to the Greek kibdelos which is defined by LSJ as: "adulterated, base." We will discuss Holyoke's definitions and the word kibdelos in more detail later, but what is important to notice here is that all of these lexical authorities agree that the Latin word adulterinus means "mongrel," and therefore the Greek word moichidios, universally defined by this Latin word, also means mongrel. Pickering's definition of bastard must be understood to have its mid-19th century meaning of mongrel.

In Lexicon: Anglo-Gr�co-Latinum Novi Testamenti by Andrew Symson (1658), under the entry "adulterer" for the Greek word moichos: "it maketh a confusion in families, through an illegitimate brood." This is very similar to the definition expressed in Latin in Critica Sacra by Edward Leigh (1662), who said of the Greek word moichos: "nam familias confundit illegitima sobole," which translated says, "for it mingles families with an illegal race." Both of these men understood that the Latin words with the root adulter-, which were used to define the moich- family of words in Greek-Latin lexicons meant to mix, mingle, etc. They are therefore here trying to explain how the idea of mixing or mingling relates to the idea of marital infidelity, and they have both defined the word very closely to the true concept behind this family of words - that of seedline corruption, both interracial and intraracial, and as we have said before, the idea of marriage is very often not an issue in ancient Greek literature where these words are used.

In A Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament by John Parkhurst (1769), under the definition for moichalis, we find this comment regarding Matthew 16:4: "Dr. Doddridge interprets [genea moichalis] 'a spurious race degenerated...'" In the Anointed Standard Translation of the New Testament, these two Greek words are translated "mongrel race," which is equivalent to Dr. Doddridge's translation, again understanding the archaic language of over 300 years ago. One reason that only a few lexicons actually use the English word mongrel for defining any Greek or Latin word is that the word mongrel was not commonly used 300-400 years ago. Since the lexicons are based upon one another, they preserve many of the archaic terms used in previous lexicons. So instead of saying mongrel, many lexicons use terms like bastard or spurious. The definitions of both of these words have subsequently changed, but that does not erase what men meant by these words when they were originally used several hundred years ago.

In any event, there is no doubt as to what Dr. Doddridge meant by the words a spurious race degenerated, and it is also clear that Dr. Doddridge, an honest scholar, understood the true definition of the moich- family of words.

Finally, we have the definition of Kittel already given for moicheuo: "of the intermingling of animals and men or of different races."

Allogenes In The Bible

The Greek word allogenes is defined by LSJ as: "of another race." This is in fact the only definition given for this word by LSJ. This immediately confirms two things: first, the subject of race is an issue in the Bible, and secondly, races are classified and distinguished between one another in the Bible; otherwise, there would be no reason to say of another race. But there are some other interesting things about this word.

The word allogenes is a combination of the word allos meaning "another" (LSJ) and the Greek word genos meaning "race" (LSJ). Thus, the two words together mean "of another race." This definition is confirmed by E.A. Sophocles (Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods) and numerous other lexical authorities, most of which give as either the primary or only definition of another race. What is interesting, however, is that this word is found only in the Bible and later Christian literature; in fact, it was coined by the translators of the Septuagint due apparently to the lack of such a clear term elsewhere in Greek literature.9 (This also explains why the word is used in two different senses in the Septuagint, having no literary or spoken legacy). Thus, not only did the Bible use this word but it created this word.

In the Septuagint, it is used not only of other pure races but of mongrels also. Thus, the usage of this word will shed light on the issue already raised: if race-mixing is prohibited, what about the mongrel offspring? And what is the nature of our relationship to be with other races?

One passage, where the word allogenes occurs several times, answers all of these questions: I Esdras 8:68-9:36, which relates the story of what happened when Esdras (or Ezra) returned to Jerusalem:

Jesus identifies jews as mamzers

They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of miscegenation; we have one ancestry, God [of Abraham].  Joh 8:39-41

The first impression is that this is a misuse of the word "fornication".  You do the works of your father.  We be not born of fornication, we have one father, God.  But further investigation reveals that this is an allusion to Deuteronomy 23:2:

"No mamzer [read: mongrel] shall enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD.

Why did the jews claim here that they had only one ancestor [read: father], and why did they associate this with the Greek word "porneia"?  Why did the Strong's definition of "porneia", as well as the KJV translation of the New Testament, exclude all references to miscegenation, mamzers, and mongrels when the Old Testament notes that God destroyed entire Israelite civilizations for miscegenating with the people of the land?

Marriage of Israelites to non-Israelites prohibited by Torah [read: Mosaic Law]:

1. An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD forever: Deuteronomy 23:3

2. And a bastard [race] shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines, Zechariah 9:6

3. And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah", Genesis 26:34-45

4. "Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites", Ezra 9:1

5. "For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass", Ezra 9:2 

6. "Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law", Ezra 10:3

7. And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. Nehemiah 9:2

8. neither shalt thou make marriages with them [read: the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite]; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son, Deuteronomy 7:3

9. Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude, Nehemiah 13:3

10. On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God forever, Nehemiah 13:1

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