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Hebrew n--tg · H5139

נָזִיר

nazirnaw-zeer'

Nazirite

16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: nâzîyr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5139is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 14
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5139

separate, i.e. consecrated (as prince, a Nazirite); hence (figuratively from the latter) an unpruned vine (like an unshorn Nazirite)

The King James renders it: Nazarite (by a false alliteration with Nazareth), separate(-d), vine undressed.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

nazir is rendered "Nazirite". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 49:26The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.
  • The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.

The first use

The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

Genesis 49:26נְזִ֥יר

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Six of the word's sixteen uses are in Numbers.

The other 32 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the Nazirite5
  • a Nazirite of3
  • a Nazirite1
  • consecrated one of1
  • ones of high rank its1
  • prince of1
  • the Nazirites1
  • to Nazirites1
  • untrimmed vines its1
  • untrimmed vines your1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

נָזִידnazidstewUses6

The words it stands beside

All 16, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

14 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • נְזִ֥יר2
  • נְזִ֧יר2
  • הַנָּזִ֑יר1
  • הַנָּזִ֗יר1
  • הַנָּזִ֔יר1
  • הַנָּזִ֖יר1
  • הַנָּזִיר֮1
  • הַנְּזִרִ֖ים1
  • לִנְזִרִ֑ים1
  • נְזִ֤יר1
  • נָזִ֔יר1
  • נְזִירֶ֙יהָ֙1

and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)5HTd/Ngmsa
  • gentilic noun (a people)3HNgmsc
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HNcmpc/Sp3fs
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp2ms
  • gentilic noun (a people)1HNgmsa
  • preposition + gentilic noun (a people)1HR/Ngmpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)1HTd/Ngmpa

Genesis

one use
  • The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

    Genesis 49:26

    • נְזִ֥ירnezirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: prince of

Leviticus

two uses
  • You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.

    Leviticus 25:5

    • נְזִירֶ֖ךָnezirekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: untrimmed vines your
  • The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.

    Leviticus 25:11

    • נְזִרֶֽיהָ׃nezireihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: untrimmed vines its

Numbers

six uses
  • “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,

    Numbers 6:2

    • נָזִ֔ירnazirgentilic noun (a people)tagged: a Nazirite
  • Now this is the law of the Nazirite when his time of separation is complete: He must be brought to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

    Numbers 6:13

    • הַנָּזִ֑ירhanazirthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Nazirite
  • Then at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head, take the hair, and put it on the fire under the peace offering.

    Numbers 6:18

    • הַנָּזִ֗ירhanazirthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Nazirite
  • And the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration.

    Numbers 6:19

    • הַנָּזִ֔ירhanazirthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Nazirite
  • The priest shall then wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. This is a holy portion for the priest, in addition to the breast of the wave offering and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.

    Numbers 6:20

    • הַנָּזִ֖ירhanazirthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Nazirite
  • This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD for his separation, in addition to whatever else he can afford; he must fulfill whatever vow he makes, according to the law of his separation.”

    Numbers 6:21

    • הַנָּזִיר֮hanazirthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Nazirite

Deuteronomy

one use
  • with the choice gifts of the land and everything in it, and with the favor of Him who dwelt in the burning bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph and crown the brow of the prince of his brothers.

    Deuteronomy 33:16

    • נְזִ֥ירnezirnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: consecrated one of

Judges

three uses
  • For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

    Judges 13:5

    • נְזִ֧ירnezirgentilic noun (a people)tagged: a Nazirite of
  • But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”

    Judges 13:7

    • נְזִ֤ירnezirgentilic noun (a people)tagged: a Nazirite of
  • Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”

    Judges 16:17

    • נְזִ֧ירnezirgentilic noun (a people)tagged: a Nazirite of

Lamentations

one use
  • Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.

    Lamentations 4:7

    • נְזִירֶ֙יהָ֙nezireihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: ones of high rank its

Amos

two uses
  • I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.

    Amos 2:11

    • לִנְזִרִ֑יםlinzirimpreposition + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: to Nazirites
  • “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

    Amos 2:12

    • הַנְּזִרִ֖יםhanezirimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Nazirites

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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