nazar · separate, consecrate oneself

What it means

nazar (נָזַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “separate, consecrate oneself”.

Separate, keep away from something; separate oneself or abstain to devote oneself to God (from this comes "Nazirite", Numbers 6).

How to say it

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. To keep at a distance from something, above all from what is holy or what turns one from God.
2. To live as a Nazirite.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• he separates himself ×2
• separate himself ×2
• abstaining ×1
• consecrated themselves ×1
• he shall separate ×1
• they keep themselves apart ×1
• who separates himself ×1
• you shall keep ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×5
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Zechariah×1

• Leviticus 15:31

  So you shall keep the sons of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness by making unclean my dwelling that is among them.

• Leviticus 22:2

  “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they keep themselves apart from the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they consecrate to me, and do not profane my holy name. I am YHWH.

• 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 6:3

  he shall separate himself from wine and intoxicating drink; he shall not drink vinegar of wine or vinegar of intoxicating drink, and he shall not drink any juice of grapes, nor eat grapes, fresh or dried.

• Numbers 6:5

  All the days of his vow of consecration no razor shall pass over his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separates himself to YHWH, he shall be holy; he shall let grow loose the hair of his head.

• Numbers 6:6

  All the days that he separates himself to YHWH he shall not go near a dead person.

• Numbers 6:12

  And he shall separate to YHWH the days of his consecration and bring a male lamb a year old as a guilt offering; but the former days shall fall away, because his consecration was made unclean.

• Ezekiel 14:7

  For any man of the house of Israel, or of the resident aliens who reside in Israel, who separates himself from following me and takes up his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet to consult me for himself, I, YHWH, will answer him myself.

• Hosea 9:10

  Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel; like the early fruit on the fig tree in its first season I saw your fathers; they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the shame, and they became detestable things like what they loved.

• Zechariah 7:3

  to speak to the priests who belonged to the house of YHWH Tsevaot and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the fifth month, abstaining, as I have done these so many years?”