Numbers 6:8
in Numbers 6Throughout the time of his separation, he is holy to the LORD.
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ASV
All the days of his separation he is holy unto Jehovah.
KJV
All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord.
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This verse in Numbers 6
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
he must not go near a dead body
on Numbers 6:6-8
An ordinary priest could defile himself for close kin at Leviticus 21:1-3, and the high priest could not, at Leviticus 21:11. Verse 7 puts the Nazirite at the high priest’s level, since the Hebrew nezer behind “crown of consecration” names his golden crown at Exodus 29:6.
This site's exposition
he is holy to the LORD
Matthew Henry held that the wine, the hair and the dead were the outside of a life kept pure in heart. John Wesley took holy as wholly given to God's service, and John Gill adds that the time was spent in religious exercises.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord. Set apart for his service, separate from all others, especially the dead, and under obligation to abstain from the above things; from drinking wine, from shaving his hair, and from defiling himself for the dead, and to be employed in holy and religious exercises during the time his vow is upon him.
This was the meaning of those external observances, and without this they were of no account. The Nazarites must be devoted to God, employed for him, and their minds intent upon him; they must keep themselves pure in heart and life, and be in every thing conformable to the divine image and will; this is to be holy, this is to be a Nazarite indeed.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
When either man or woman . . . shall vow a vow of a Nazarite--that is, "a separated one," from a Hebrew word, "to separate." It was used to designate a class of persons who, under the impulse of extraordinary piety and with a view to higher degrees of religious improvement, voluntarily renounced the occupations and pleasures of the world to dedicate themselves unreservedly to the divine service.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כֹּ֖ל | kol | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| יְמֵ֣י | yemei | [the] days of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| נִזְר֑וֹ | nizro | Nazirite vow his | H5145 → | 25 times |
| קָדֹ֥שׁ | kadosh | [is] holy | H6918 → | 116 times |
| ה֖וּא | hu' | he | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| לַֽיהוָֽה׃ | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
כֹּ֖לall
kolH3605 →5413 times
יְמֵ֣י[the] days of
yemeiH3117 →2304 times
נִזְר֑וֹNazirite vow his
nizroH5145 →25 times
קָדֹ֥שׁ[is] holy
kadoshH6918 →116 times
ה֖וּאhe
hu'H1931 →1879 times
לַֽיהוָֽה׃to Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Numbers
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.