. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . as, e. g. the offspring of adultery. The ancient ver-sions (LXX., Vulgate, Syriae) add another class, thechildren of a harlot, and in this sense the termmanzer or mamer survived in the Latin Pontificallaw. The child of a non-Israelite and a mamzerwas also reckoned by the Talmudists a mamzer, aswas the issue of a slave and a mamzer, and of amamzer and female proselyte. The term also occursin Zech. ix. 6, a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, where it seems to denote a foreign race of mixed andspurious birth. Dr. Geiger infers from this passagethat mamzer s
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . as, e. g. the offspring of adultery. The ancient ver-sions (LXX., Vulgate, Syriae) add another class, thechildren of a harlot, and in this sense the termmanzer or mamer survived in the Latin Pontificallaw. The child of a non-Israelite and a mamzerwas also reckoned by the Talmudists a mamzer, aswas the issue of a slave and a mamzer, and of amamzer and female proselyte. The term also occursin Zech. ix. 6, a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, where it seems to denote a foreign race of mixed andspurious birth. Dr. Geiger infers from this passagethat mamzer specially signifies the issue of such mar-riages between the Jews and the women of Ashdodas are alluded to in Neh. xiii. 23, 24, and applies itexclusively to the Philistine bastard.—Bastards(Gr. nolhoi) in Heb. xii. 8, figuratively = those whomGod regards .is not His true children or people. Bat (Heb. atalleph; Gr. nufcteris). There is nodoubt that the A. V. is correct in its rendering ofthese words. In the A. V. of Lev. xi. 19, and Rat—(Taj/tocoua [itrforatus.} xiv. 18, the bat closes the lists of fowls thatshall not be eaten ; but it must be rememberedthat the ancients considered the bat to partake ofthe nature of a bird, and the Heb. oph translatedfowls (literally = a wing) might be applied toany winged creature (compare Lev. xi. 20). Besidesthe passages cited above, the bat is mentioned in 20: In that day a man shall cast his idols ....to the moles and to the bats; and in Bar. vi. 22, inthe passage that so graphically sets forth the vanityof Babylonish idols : Their faces are blackedthrough the smoke that cometh out of the their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, andbirds, and the cats also. Many travellers havenoticed the immense numbers of bats found in cav-erns in the East, and Layard says that on the occa-sion of a visit to a cavern these noisome beastscompelled him to retreat. Balli, Ba thing. This was a prescribed part of theHebrew ritua
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