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Lexicon :: Strong's H5144 - nāzar

Aa
נָזַר
Transliteration
nāzar
Pronunciation
naw-zar'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1340

Strong’s Definitions

נָזַר nâzar, naw-zar'; a primitive root; to hold aloof, i.e. (intransitivey) abstain (from food and drink, from impurity, and even from divine worship (i.e. apostatize)); specifically, to set apart (to sacred purposes), i.e. devote:—consecrate, separate(-ing, self).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's H5144 in the following manner: separate... (9x), consecrate (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's H5144 in the following manner: separate... (9x), consecrate (1x).

  1. to dedicate, consecrate, separate

    1. (Niphal) to dedicate oneself, devote oneself

    2. (Hiphil) to keep sacredly separate

  2. (Hiphil) to be a Nazarite, live as a Nazarite

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נָזַר nâzar, naw-zar'; a primitive root; to hold aloof, i.e. (intransitivey) abstain (from food and drink, from impurity, and even from divine worship (i.e. apostatize)); specifically, to set apart (to sacred purposes), i.e. devote:—consecrate, separate(-ing, self).
STRONGS H5144: Abbreviations
[נָזַר] verb dedicate, consecrate, (compare WeSkizzen iii. 118), separate, in relig. and ceremonial sense (Late Hebrew only as denominative, compare II. נזר; Arabic bdb063401 make a vow, compare WeSkizzen iii. 117 f., RSi. 463 f., 2d ed. 482 f.; Sabean נדֿר vow LevyZMG xxii (1868), 196 Min. id., HomSüdar. Chrest. 128; Aramaic bdb063402 נְדַד, vow; Assyrian nazâru, curse DlHWB 457); —
Niph. Imperfect יִנָּזֵר Ezekiel 14:7, וַיִנָּזֵר Leviticus 22:2; וַיִּנָּֽזְרוּ Hosea 9:10; Infinitive absolute הִנָּזֵר Zechariah 7:3; — devote, dedicate oneself unto (ל), הַבּשֶׁת, i.e. Ba`al Hosea 9:10; from (מִן) י׳ Ezekiel 14:7 (of apostasy); hold sacredly aloof from, (מִן) Leviticus 22:2 (H); absolute Zechariah 7:3 consecrating my(self), i.e. by fasting.
Hiph. Perfect מִטֻּמְאָתָם וְהִזֵּרְתֶּם אֶתבְּֿנֵייִֿשׂ׳ Leviticus 15:31 (P) and ye shall keep the sons of Israel sacredly separate from their uncleanness (but read perhaps וְהִזְהַרְתָּם warn away from — as Ezekiel 3:18; Ezekiel 33:8, 9, — so Samaritan Greek Version of the LXX — as to sense — Di Kau). — See also II. [נָזַר].

[נָזַר] verb denominative
Hiph. be a Nazirite, live as Nazirite, followed by מִן (abstaining) from (so Late Hebrew); — only Numbers 6 in law of Nazirite: Perfect וְהִזִּיר לי׳ consecutive Numbers 6:12; Imperfect יַזִּיר לי׳ Numbers 6:5; also מִיַּיִן ֗֗֗ יַזִּיר Numbers 6:3 from wine... he shall abstain as a Nazirite; Infinitive לְהַזּיר לְי׳ Numbers 6:2, כָּלָיְֿמֵי הַזּירוֺ לי׳ Numbers 6:6.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

15:31; 22:2; 22:2

Numbers

6:2; 6:3; 6:5; 6:6; 6:12

Ezekiel

3:18; 14:7; 14:7; 33:8; 33:9

Hosea

9:10; 9:10

Zechariah

7:3; 7:3

H5144

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Strong's Number H5144 matches the Hebrew נָזַר (nāzar),
which occurs 10 times in 10 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31 - In this way may the children of Israel be made free from all sorts of unclean conditions, so that death may not overtake them when they are unclean and when they make unclean my holy place which is among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:2 - Give orders to Aaron and to his sons to keep themselves separate from the holy things of the children of Israel which they give to me, and not to make my holy name common: I am the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:2 - Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:3 - He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:5 - All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:6 - All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12 - And he will give to the Lord his days of being separate, offering a he-lamb of the first year as an offering for error: but the earlier days will be a loss, because he became unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself:

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 - I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:3 - And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?
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