H5139 - נָזִיר (nâzîyr)

H5139 נָזִיר (nâzîyr) naw-zeer'

Hebrew

Noun

Quick Definition

Nazirite

Biblical Persons & Places

Nazirite Religious category in the Old and New Testaments

A person consecrated, set apart; called Nazirite (נָזִיר); or Be Nazirite (נָזַר); or Nazirite vow (נֵ֫זֶר); vines set apart;

Strong's Definition

separate, i.e. consecrated (as prince, a Nazirite); hence (figuratively from the latter) an unpruned vine (like an unshorn Nazirite)

Derivation: or נָזִר; from H5144 (נָזַר);

KJV Usage: Nazarite (by a false alliteration with Nazareth), separate(-d), vine undressed.

TWOT Reference: 1340b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) consecrated or devoted one, Nazarite

1a) consecrated one

1b) devotee, Nazarite

1c) untrimmed (vine)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G37 G38 G39 G47 G1392 G2233

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) consecrated or devoted one, Nazarite 1a) consecrated one 1b) devotee, Nazarite 1c) untrimmed (vine) Also named: ne.zer (נֵ֫זֶר ": consecration" H5145)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

נָזִר / נָזִיר nâzý̂yr / nâzir BDB Definition: 1) consecrated or devoted one, Nazarite 1a) consecrated one 1b) devotee, Nazarite 1c) untrimmed (vine) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5144 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1340b Total KJV Occurrences: 18

Bible Occurrences (16)

49:26

25:5 25:11

6:2 6:13 6:18 6:19 6:20 6:21

33:16

13:5 13:7 16:17

4:7

2:11 2:12

Genesis 49:26

The blessings of your father have surpassed... the blessings of the ancient mountains... and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

Leviticus 25:5

You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines.... The land must have a year of complete rest.

Leviticus 25:11

The fiftieth... year will be a Jubilee... for you; you are not to sow [the land] or reap its aftergrowth... or harvest the untended vines.

Numbers 6:2

Speak to the Israelites... and tell them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,

Numbers 6:13

Now this is the law of the Nazirite when his time of separation is complete: He must be brought to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

Numbers 6:18

Then at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head -, take the hair -, and put it on the fire under the peace offering.

Numbers 6:19

And the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved [the hair of] his consecration.

Numbers 6:20

The priest shall then wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. This is a holy portion for the priest, in addition to the breast of the wave offering... and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.