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נָזִיר

nazir · Nazirite; consecrated

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5139 · appears 16 times in the Bible

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What it means

nazir (נָזִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Nazirite; consecrated”.

Nazirite: a person set apart for God by a vow. The word means "set apart, consecrated"; so it is also said of one who is distinguished among his brothers, and of a vine left unpruned.

How to say it

na·zir

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. The one set apart from his brothers.
  2. Someone set apart for God by a special vow.
  3. An unpruned vine.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • Nazirite ×9
  • Nazirites ×3
  • one consecrated ×2
  • unpruned vine ×1
  • unpruned vines ×1

Where it appears

  • Genesis 49:26

    The blessings of your father have prevailed over the blessings of my ancestors, up to the bounds of the eternal hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of the one consecrated among his brothers.

  • Leviticus 25:5

    What grows by itself from your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your unpruned vine you shall not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

  • Leviticus 25:11

    That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; you shall not sow, and you shall not reap what grows by itself and you shall not gather its unpruned vines.

  • Numbers 6:2

    “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to YHWH,

  • Numbers 6:13

    And this is the instruction for the Nazirite: on the day when the days of his consecration are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting,

  • Numbers 6:18

    And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and take the hair of his consecrated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of peace.

  • Numbers 6:19

    And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them on the palms of the Nazirite after he has shaved off his consecration.

  • Numbers 6:20

    And the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before YHWH; it is holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and with the thigh of the contribution. And afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.

  • Numbers 6:21

    This is the instruction for the Nazirite who vows his offering to YHWH for his consecration, besides what his hand can afford; according to his vow that he vows, so he shall do, according to the instruction for his consecration.”

  • Deuteronomy 33:16

    and with the choicest of the earth and its fullness, and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. Let it come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of the one consecrated among his brothers.

  • Judges 13:5

    For look, you will be pregnant and bear a son. And no razor shall come up on his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite of Elohim from the womb, and he will begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

  • Judges 13:7

    But he said to me, ‘Look, you will be pregnant and bear a son; so now do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, and do not eat any uncleanness, for the boy shall be a Nazirite of Elohim from the womb until the day of his death.’”

  • Judges 16:17

    So he opened to her all his heart and said to her, “A razor has never come up on my head, for I have been a Nazirite of Elohim from the womb of my mother. If I am shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I will become weak and be like any human being.”

  • Lamentations 4:7

    Purer than snow were her Nazirites, whiter than milk; ruddier in body than pearls, like sapphire their form.

  • Amos 2:11

    And I raised up some of your sons as prophets, and some of your young men as Nazirites. Is it not so, children of Israel? declares YHWH.

  • Amos 2:12

    But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and you commanded the prophets, saying, “Do not prophesy.”