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# נָזַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5144

**dedicate** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dedicate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5144/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָזַר: vb. dedicate, consecrate separate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5144/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. dedicate, consecrate, (cf. WeSkizzen iii. 118), separate, in relig. and ceremonial sense (NH only as denom., cf. ii. נזר; Arabic نَذَرَ make a vow, cf. WeSkizzen iii. 117 f., RS i. 463 f., 2d ed. 482 f.; Sab. נדֿר vow LevyZMG xxii (1868), 196 Min. id., HomSüdar. Chrest. 128; Aramaic ܢܕܰܪ, נְדַר, vow; Assyrian nazâru, curse DlHWB 457);— Impf. יִנָּזֵר Ez 14:7, וַיִּנָּזֵר Lv 22:2; וַיִּנָּֽזְרוּ Ho 9:10; Inf. abs. הִנָּזֵר Zc 7:3;—devote, dedicate oneself unto (ל), הַבּשֶׁת, i.e. Baʿal Ho 9:10; from (מִן) י׳ Ez 14:7 (of apostasy); hold sacredly aloof from, (מִן) Lv 22:2 (H); abs. Zc 7:3 consecrating my(self), i.e. by fasting. Pf. וְהִזַּרְתֶּם אֶת־בְּנֵי־יִשׂ׳ מִטֻּמְאָתָם Lv 15:31 (P) and ye shall keep the sons of Isr. sacredly separate from their uncleanness (but read; perhaps וְהִזְהַרְתֶּם warn away from—as Ez 3:18; 33:8, 9,—so Sam. 𝔊—as to sense—Di Kau).—Vid. also ii. \[נָזַר\].

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he will be a Nazirite (2); be a Nazirite (1); he will keep separate (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.6/#tree)

כָּל־יְמֵ֥י הַזִּיר֖וֹ לַיהוָ֑ה עַל־נֶ֥פֶשׁ מֵ֖ת לֹ֥א יָבֹֽא׃

*Word for word:* all the.days of his.being.a.Nazirite to Yahweh to a.corpse of.a.dead.\[person\] not he.will.go

*JPS 1917:* All the days that he consecrateth himself unto the LORD he shall not come near to a dead body.

[Numbers 6:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.2/#tree)

דַּבֵּר֙ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ אֲלֵהֶ֑ם אִ֣ישׁ אֽוֹ־אִשָּׁ֗ה כִּ֤י יַפְלִא֙ לִנְדֹּר֙ נֶ֣דֶר נָזִ֔יר לְהַזִּ֖יר לַֽיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* speak to the.people of.Israel and you.will.say to them a.man or a.woman (dm) he.will.make.hard to vow a.vow of.a.Nazirite to be.a.Nazirite to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When either man or woman shall clearly utter a vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to consecrate himself unto the LORD,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5144.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5144/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).