nezer · consecration, crown

What it means

nezer (נֶזֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “consecration, crown”.

Crown: a sign that someone is set apart for God (the high priest, the king). Also the consecration itself, like that of the Nazirite, and his uncut hair.

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. Being set apart for God, like the Nazirite.
2. A crown or diadem.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• consecration ×11
• diadem ×8
• consecrated ×3
• crown ×2
• hair ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×13
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 29:6

  You shall set the turban on his head and put the holy diadem on the turban.

• Exodus 39:30

  And they made the plate of the holy diadem of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription with the engravings of a seal: “Holiness to YHWH.”

• Leviticus 8:9

  He put the turban on his head, and on the turban, on its front, he put the gold plate, the holy diadem, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 21:12

  And he shall not go out from the sanctuary, and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his Elohim, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his Elohim is on him. I am YHWH.

• Numbers 6:4

  All the days of his consecration he shall not eat anything that is made from the vine of wine, from seeds to skin.

• 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 6:7

  For his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, he shall not make himself unclean for them when they die, because the consecration of his Elohim is on his head.

• Numbers 6:8

  All the days of his consecration he is holy to YHWH.

• Numbers 6:9

  And if someone dies beside him very suddenly and makes unclean his consecrated head, he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

• 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.

• 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 6:21

  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.”

• 2 Samuel 1:10

  So I stood over him and put him to death, for I knew that he would not live after his fall; and I took the diadem that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”

• 2 Kings 11:12

  He brought out the king’s son and put on him the crown and the testimony; and they made him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, “Long live the king!”

• 2 Chronicles 23:11

  They brought out the king’s son and put on him the crown and the testimony, and made him king; and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king!”

• Psalms 89:39

  You have repudiated the covenant of your servant; you have profaned to the ground his diadem.

• Psalms 132:18

  His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon him his diadem will flourish.”

• Proverbs 27:24

  for riches are not forever, nor a diadem from generation to generation.

• Jeremiah 7:29

  Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise on the bare heights a lament, for YHWH has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

• Zechariah 9:16

  And YHWH their Elohim will save them on that day as the flock of his people; for they will be the stones of a diadem, sparkling over his land.

And 3 more times.