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title: נָזַר — dedicate · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָזַר (5144), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: dedicate. BDB 1906: vb. dedicate, consecrate separate. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָזַר

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«נָזַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **dedicate** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 10 times · **Key:** 5144 · **BDB:** נָזַר

### Glosses

he.will.be.a.Nazirite (2); be.a.Nazirite (1); he.will.keep.separate (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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. \[נָזַר\].

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָזַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5144/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 6:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.6/)

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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.

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

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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,

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