What Is A Nazarite?

According to Gesenius, the root nazar means to consecrate, to vow. He continued, “The primary idea is that of separating.” Thus, he said it meant “to separate oneself from any one, e. g. from after Yehovah, for example, i.e. to fall away from the worship of Jehovah, Ez. 14, 7.”

Ezekiel 14:7 “For a man a man from the House of Israel and from the sojourner who will sojourn in Israel, and he has been separated from after me, and he has made ascend his rollers unto his heart. And he will put the stumblingblock of his iniquity straight-before his faces. And he will come unto the prophet to research to him into me, I Yehovah! We will answer to him via me! ⁸And I will give my faces into that man. And I will put him to a sign and to proverbs! And I will cut him off from the midst of my people! And ye shall know that I am Yehovah!”

Gesenius continued, “to abstain from any thing, with from, Lev. 22, 2.”

Leviticus 22:2 “Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons. And they have separated from the holies of the children of Israel. And they shall not profane the Name of my holy Holy-One Whom they are sanctifying to me. I am Yehovah.”

Gesenius stated, “spoken of abstinence from food and drink Zech. 7. 3, compare verse 5.”

Zechariah 7:3 …to say unto the priests who are to the house of Yehovah of hosts and unto the prophets to say, “Shall I weep in the fifth month to be separated [abstain] just as I did this how many years?” ⁴And the word of Yehovah of hosts was unto me to say, ⁵ “Say unto all the people of the land and unto the priests to say, ‘When ye have shut, and to mourn in the fifth and seventh, and this seventy year, shutting, did ye shut me? I?’”

Then, Gesenius states, “to consecrate or devote oneself to any thing, e. g. to Yehovah Hos. 9, 10.”

Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as a firstborn in a fig tree in her beginning. They came Baalpeor, and they were separated to shame. And they were abominations as their love.

In the Hiphil form, Gesenius states, “to separate one from any thing, e. e. to restrain from, to admonish against. Lev. 15, 31 cause ye the children of Israel to separate themselves from their uncleanness, i. e. admonish them not to make themselves nclean. Compare Arabic, to premonish, to admonish.”

Leviticus 15:31 And ye shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness. And they shall not die in their uncleanness in their ‘uncleaning’ my abidingplace that is in their midst.

Gesenius then thought that the transitive form meant to consecrate, as in Numbers 6:12—

Numbers 6:12 And he shall separate to Yehovah the days of his separation. And he shall bring a lamb the son of his year for a transgression. And the first days shall fall. For his separation was unclean.

In the intransitive form, Gesenius thought it meant to abstain, as Numbers 6:3—

Numbers 6:3 He shall separate from wine and strong drink. Vinegar of wine and vinegar of strong drink he will not drink, and he will not drink every liquid of grapes. And grapes moist and dried he will not eat.

Though Gesenius thought the word meant to abstain, in the verses immediately surrounding the above verse, he thought it meant to consecrate or devote oneself to Yehovah (Num. 6, 2. 5. 6.). I will give the sequence of verses.

Numbers 6:2 Speak unto the children of Israel. And thou shalt say unto them, “A man or a woman who shall miracle to vow a vow of separation to separate to Yehovah, ³he shall separate from wine and strong drink. Vinegar of wine and vinegar of strong drink he will not drink, and he will not drink every liquid of grapes. And grapes moist and dried he will not eat. ⁴All the days of his separation are from all he will make from a vine of the wine. From the determiners and unto a clear [skin] he will not eat. ⁵All the days of the vow of his separation a razor will not cross-over upon his head unto the fullness of their day that he will be separated to Yehovah. Holy he will be. The lock of the hair of his head became-big. ⁶All the days of his separation to Yehovah he shall not come upon a being of a dead-one.

I had a thought while looking at this word. Suppose it is related to sojourner, which has two of the three letters. It comes from the root zoor, and nearly always has a bad meaning of stranger, foreigner, a foreign god, etc., which can explain why nazarites seemed so foreign to the Israelis, just as Messiah Yeshua does now.

Suppose it refers to the days of his sojourning as a foreigner rather than the days of his separation.

Gesenius continued by defining the noun nazer, as the “consecration of a priest Lev. 21, 12; specifically of a Nazarite Num. 6, 4. 5. 9 his consecrated head. v. 12.” (when the Hebrew actually read the head of his nazir; see text in full below).

Leviticus 21:12 “And from the Sanctuary he will not go-out. And he will not pierce the Sanctuary of his Gods. For the nazir of the oil of anointing of his Gods is upon him. I am Yehovah!”

Suppose this made him a stranger to the Israelis.

Numbers 6:2 Speak unto the children of Israel. And thou shalt say unto them, “A man or a woman who shall miracle to vow a vow of separation to separate to Yehovah, ³he shall separate from wine and strong drink. Vinegar of wine and vinegar of strong drink he will not drink, and he will not drink every liquid of grapes. And grapes moist and dried he will not eat. ⁴All the days of his separation are from all he will make from a vine of the wine. From the determiners and unto a clear [skin] he will not eat. ⁵All the days of the vow of his separation a razor will not cross-over upon his head unto the fullness of their day that he will be separated to Yehovah. Holy he will be. The lock of the hair of his head became-big. ⁶All the days of his separation to Yehovah he shall not come upon a being of a dead-one. ⁷For his father and for his mother, for his brother and for his sister—he will not unclean for them in their death. For the nazir of his Gods is upon his head. ⁸All the days of his nazir he is holy unto Yehovah. ⁹And when a dead-one will die upon him in an instant suddenly, and the head of his nazir will be unclean. And he will shave his head in the day of his being-clean. In the day of the seven he will shave him. ¹⁰And in the day of the eighth he will bring two turtledoves or two sons of a dove unto the priest unto the opening of the Tent of Appointment. ¹¹And the priest will do one for a sin-sacrifice and one for ascension. And he will cover upon him from what he sinned concerning the being. And he will sanctify his head in that day. ¹²And he will hezeer to Yehovah the days of his Nazir. And he will bring a lamb the son of his year for transgression. And the first days shall fall. For his nazir uncleaned. ¹³And this is the teaching of the Nazir: in the day of the fullness of the days of his Nazar he will bring him unto the opening of the Tent of Appointment. ¹⁴And he shall bring-near his brought-near to Yehovah, one perfect boy-lamb the son of his year for ascension and one perfect girl-lamb the daughter of her year for a sin-sacrifice, and one perfect ram for peaces ¹⁵and a basket of Matzahs, flour of piercings mingled in oil and spittings of Matzahs anointed in oil and their restings and their pourings. ¹⁶And the priest shall bring-near to the faces of Yehovah. And He will make his sin-sacrifice and his ascension. ¹⁷And he will make the ram a sacrifice of peaces to Yehovah upon the basket of the Matzahs. And the priest will make his resting and his pouring. ¹⁸And the Nazir will shave the head of his Nazar opening of the Tent of Appointment. And he will take the hair of the head of his Nazar. And he will give upon the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peaces. ¹⁹And the priest shall take the cooked arm from the ram and piercings of one Matzah from the basket and one spitting of Matzah. And he shall give upon palms of the Nazir after his shaving his Nazar. ²⁰And the priest shall wave them a waving to the faces of Yehovah. Holy is he to the priest upon the breast of the waving and upon the leg of the elevating. And after, the Nazir will drink wine. ²¹This is the teaching of the Nazir who will vow his brought-near to Yehovah upon his Nazar beside what his hand will reach, the palms of his vow that he will vow. Established will he do upon the teaching of his Nazar.

Gesenius continued, “Hence metonymy consecrated head scilicet (Latin, for ‘understand’ or ‘apply’) of a Nazarite, Number 6, 19.” He continued, “Also, the primary idea being dropped, unshorn hair, long hair, e. g. of a woman, Jer. 7, 29.”

Jeremiah 7:29 Shear thy nazir and cast-away and carry upon barrens a lamentation! For Yehovah hath contemned and cast-out the generation of his overflowing!

In his second noun definition, he wrote, “a diadem, worn as the mark of consecration, e. g. by the high priest, whose diadem was called nazir of the holy, Ex. 29, 6. 39, 30. Lev. 8, 9;”

Exodus 29:6 And thou shalt put the wrapping upon his head. And thou shalt give the nazar of the Holy-One upon the wrapping.

Exodus 39:30 And they made the flower of the nazar of the Holy-One pure gold. And they wrote upon him a writing, openings of a signet, Holy to Yehovah.

Leviticus 8:9 And he put the wrapping upon his head. And he put upon the wrapping unto the front of his faces the flower of the gold, nazir of the Holy-One just as Yehovah commanded Moshe.

Then he wrote, “a king 2 Sam. 1, 10. 2 K. 11, 12. 2 Chr. 23, 11. al. the gems of a diadem, put for any thing precious, Zech. 9, 16.”

2 Samuel 1:10 And I stood upon him. And I killed him because I knew that he will not live after his fall. And I took the nazir that is upon his head and the bracelet that is upon his arm. And I brought them here unto my lord.

2 Kings 11:12 And he sent-out the king’s son. And he gave upon him the nazir and the testimonies. And they kinged him. And he anointed him. And they smote palm. And they said, “The king shall live!”

2 Chronicles 23:11 And they sent-out the king’s son. And they gave upon him the nazir and the testimonies. And they kinged him. And Yehoyada anointed him, and his sons. And they said, “The king shall live!”

Zechariah 9:16 And Yehovah their Gods shall save them in that day as the flock of His people. For stones of a nazir are testing themselves upon His soil.

The other texts covering this topic are the following:

Genesis 49:26 The blessings of thy father prevailed above the blessings of my parents unto the lust of hills of hiding! They shall be to the head of Joseph and to the scalp of a nazir of his brothers.

Leviticus 25:5 Thou shalt not reap volunteer of thy harvest and thou shalt not defend the grapes of thy nazir. He will be a year of ceasing to the land.

Leviticus 25:11 He is a flowing, a year of the fifty year she will be to you. Ye shall not seed and ye shall not harvest her volunteers. And ye shall not fortify her nazirs.

Deuteronomy 33:13 And to Joseph he said, “The Blessing of Yehovah is his land from the excellence of the heavens, from the dew and from the deep couching under, ¹⁴and from the excellence of the increases of the sun, and from the excellence of the thrusting-out of the months, ¹⁵and from the head of the mountains of ancient-time, and from the excellence of the hills of hiding, ¹⁶and from the excellence of the land and her fullness and the desire of the Abider of the bush. Her increase is for the head of Yoseph and for the scalp of the Nazir of his brothers, ¹⁷the firstborn of his herd. Grandeur is his, and his horns are like the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth; and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

Judges 13:5 “For behold thee pregnant. And thou shalt child a son. And a teacher will not ascend over his head, for the youth will be a Nazir of Elohim from the belly. And he, he will begin to save Israel from the hand of Palestinians.” ⁶And the woman came. And she said to her man to say, “A man of the Elohim came unto me. And his appearance is as the appearance of a messenger of the Elohim, very fearsome! And I did not ask him where from this is he, and he did not tell to me his name. ⁷And he said to me, ‘Behold thee pregnant! And thou shalt child a son. And now, don’t drink wine and liquor and don’t eat any unclean. For the youth will be a nazir of Elohim from the belly unto the day of his death!’”

Judges 16:17 And he told to her all his heart. And he said to her, “A teacher did not ascend over my head. For a nazir of Elohim am I from the belly of my mother. If I shaved, and my strength will turn from me. And I will be sick. And I will be as each of the adam.”

Lamentations 4:7 Her Nazireem were purer than snow. They were more dazzling than milk. They reddened a bone more than corners. A sapphire is their separation/cut-off.

Amos 2:11 “And I made-stand from your sons for prophets and from your chosen-ones for Nazireem. Is it not even this, Children of Israel?” declared Yehovah. ¹² “And ye watered the Nazireem wine to drink. And ye commanded upon the prophets, saying, ‘Ye shall not prophesy!’”

Psalm 89:40 Thou hast spurned the covenant of thy servant! Thou hast pierced to the land his nazir!

Psalm 132:18 I will clothe his enemies shame! And upon him is the flower of his nazir!

Proverbs 27:24 For wealth is not to hiding. And if a nazir is to generation generation!

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A Stranger

Now, I will give the same texts as above, with the idea of being a stranger, a foreigner, one who is not part of a people, but who is leading a life as if from a foreign country and culture, even with a foreign god (perhaps the True and Living God!). I will use some form of the word alien, as alienated.

Ezekiel 14:7 “For a man a man from the House of Israel and from the sojourner who will sojourn in Israel, and he has been alienated from after me, and he has made ascend his rollers unto his heart. And he will put the stumblingblock of his iniquity straight-before his faces. And he will come unto the prophet to research to him into me, I Yehovah! We will answer to him via me! ⁸And I will give my faces into that man. And I will put him to a sign and to proverbs! And I will cut him off from the midst of my people! And ye shall know that I am Yehovah!”

Leviticus 22:2 “Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons. And they have been alienated from the holies of the children of Israel. And they shall not profane the Name of my holy Holy-One Whom they are sanctifying to me. I am Yehovah.”

Zechariah 7:3 …to say unto the priests who are to the house of Yehovah of hosts and unto the prophets to say, “Shall I weep in the fifth month to be alienated just as I did this how many years?” ⁴And the word of Yehovah of hosts was unto me to say, ⁵ “Say unto all the people of the land and unto the priests to say, ‘When ye have shut, and to mourn in the fifth and seventh, and this seventy year, shutting, did ye shut me? I?’”

Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as a firstborn in a fig tree in her beginning. They came Baalpeor, and they were alienated to shame. And they were abominations as their love.

Leviticus 15:31 And ye shall alienate the children of Israel from their uncleanness. And they shall not die in their uncleanness in their ‘uncleaning’ my abidingplace that is in their midst.

The above two texts show that one is alienated to or from something. If they are alienated to something, that means that they have been alienated from the familiar object to the new object. Thus, one is alienated from idols to God, as in the following texts:

1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.

Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Ephesians 2:11 Wherefore remember that ye, being in time past Gentiles in the flesh who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands, ¹²that at that time ye were without Messiah, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. ¹³But now in Messiah Yeshua ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Messiah.

The following nazir texts continue.

Leviticus 21:12 “And from the Sanctuary he will not go-out. And he will not pierce the Sanctuary of his Gods. For the alienation of the oil of anointing of his Gods is upon him. I am Yehovah!”

Numbers 6:2 Speak unto the children of Israel. And thou shalt say unto them, “A man or a woman who shall miracle to vow a vow of alienation to alienate to Yehovah, ³he shall alienate from wine and strong drink. Vinegar of wine and vinegar of strong drink he will not drink, and he will not drink every liquid of grapes. And grapes moist and dried he will not eat. ⁴All the days of his alienation are from all he will make from a vine of the wine. From the determiners [genetic information being in the seeds!] and unto a clear [skin] he will not eat. ⁵All the days of the vow of his alienation a razor will not cross-over upon his head unto the fullness of their day that he will be an alien to Yehovah. He will be holy. The lock of the hair of his head became-big. ⁶All the days of his alienation to Yehovah he shall not [RTF bookmark start: HereIAm][RTF bookmark end: HereIAm]come upon a being of a dead-one. ⁷For his father and for his mother, for his brother and for his sister—he will not unclean for them in their death. For the alienation of his Gods is upon his head. ⁸All the days of his alienation he is holy unto Yehovah. ⁹And when a dead-one will die upon him in an instant suddenly, and the head of his alienation will be unclean. And he will shave his head in the day of his being-clean. In the day of the seven he will shave him. ¹⁰And in the day of the eighth he will bring two turtledoves or two sons of a dove unto the priest unto the opening of the Tent of Appointment. ¹¹And the priest will do one for a sin-sacrifice and one for ascension. And he will cover upon him from what he sinned concerning the being. And he will sanctify his head in that day. ¹²And he will alienate to Yehovah the days of his alien. And he will bring a lamb the son of his year for transgression. And the first days shall fall. For his alien uncleaned. ¹³And this is the teaching of the alien: in the day of the fullness of the days of his alienation he will bring him unto the opening of the Tent of Appointment. ¹⁴And he shall bring-near his brought-near to Yehovah, one perfect boy-lamb the son of his year for ascension and one perfect girl-lamb the daughter of her year for a sin-sacrifice, and one perfect ram for peaces ¹⁵and a basket of Matzahs, flour of piercings mingled in oil and spittings of Matzahs anointed in oil and their restings and their pourings. ¹⁶And the priest shall bring-near to the faces of Yehovah. And He will make his sin-sacrifice and his ascension. ¹⁷And he will make the ram a sacrifice of peaces to Yehovah upon the basket of the Matzahs. And the priest will make his resting and his pouring. ¹⁸And the alien will shave the head of his alienation opening of the Tent of Appointment. And he will take the hair of the head of his alien. And he will give upon the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peaces. ¹⁹And the priest shall take the cooked arm from the ram and piercings of one Matzah from the basket and one spitting of Matzah. And he shall give upon palms of the alien after his shaving his alienation. ²⁰And the priest shall wave them a waving to the faces of Yehovah. Holy is he to the priest upon the breast of the waving and upon the leg of the elevating. And after, the alien will drink wine. ²¹This is the teaching of the alien who will vow his brought-near to Yehovah upon his alienation beside what his hand will reach, the palms of his vow that he will vow. Established will he do upon the teaching of his alienation.

Jeremiah 7:29 Shear thine alien and cast-away and carry upon barrens a lamentation! For Yehovah hath contemned and cast-out the generation of his overflowing!

Exodus 29:6 And thou shalt put the wrapping upon his head. And thou shalt give the alienation of the Holy-One upon the wrapping.

Exodus 39:30 And they made the flower of the alienation of the Holy-One pure gold. And they wrote upon him a writing, openings of a signet, “Holy to Yehovah.”

Leviticus 8:9 And he put the wrapping upon his head. And he put upon the wrapping unto the front of his faces the flower of the gold, “alien of the Holy-One” just as Yehovah commanded Moshe.

Look at the following text:

Psalm 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

Stranger in this verse is zoor, the word I propose to be related to nazir.

2 Samuel 1:10 And I stood upon him. And I killed him because I knew that he will not live after his fall. And I took the alien that is upon his head and the bracelet that is upon his arm. And I brought them here unto my lord.

This word was often rendered crown, but it may have the signification of being an ‘alienizer’, causing one who wears it to become alien to the others through rank and function.

2 Kings 11:12 And he sent-out the king’s son. And he gave upon him the alien and the testimonies. And they kinged him. And he anointed him. And they smote palm [I think they clapped]. And they said, “The king shall live!”

2 Chronicles 23:11 And they sent-out the king’s son. And they gave upon him the alien and the testimonies. And they kinged him. And Yehoyada anointed him, and his sons. And they said, “The king shall live!”

Zechariah 9:16 And Yehovah their Gods shall save them in that day as the flock of His people. For stones of an alien are testing themselves upon His soil.

Genesis 49:26 The blessings of thy father prevailed above the blessings of my parents unto the lust of hills of hiding! They shall be to the head of Joseph and to the scalp of an alien of his brothers.

Leviticus 25:5 Thou shalt not reap volunteer of thy harvest and thou shalt not defend the grapes of thine alien. He will be a year of ceasing to the land.

Leviticus 25:11 He is a flowing, a year of the fifty year she will be to you. Ye shall not seed and ye shall not harvest her volunteers. And ye shall not fortify her aliens.

Deuteronomy 33:13 And to Joseph he said, “The Blessing of Yehovah is his land from the excellence of the heavens, from the dew and from the deep couching under, ¹⁴and from the excellence of the increases of the sun, and from the excellence of the thrusting-out of the months, ¹⁵and from the head of the mountains of ancient-time, and from the excellence of the hills of hiding, ¹⁶and from the excellence of the land and her fullness and the desire of the Abider of the bush. Her increase is for the head of Yoseph and for the scalp of the alien of his brothers, ¹⁷the firstborn of his herd. Grandeur is his, and his horns are like the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth; and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

Judges 13:5 “For behold thee pregnant. And thou shalt child a son. And a teacher will not ascend over his head, for the youth will be an alien of Elohim from the belly. And he, he will begin to save Israel from the hand of Palestinians.” ⁶And the woman came. And she said to her man to say, “A man of the Elohim came unto me. And his appearance is as the appearance of a messenger of the Elohim, very fearsome! And I did not ask him where from this is he, and he did not tell to me his name. ⁷And he said to me, ‘Behold thee pregnant! And thou shalt child a son. And now, don’t drink wine and liquor and don’t eat any unclean. For the youth will be an alien of Elohim from the belly unto the day of his death!’”

Judges 16:17 And he told to her all his heart. And he said to her, “A teacher did not ascend over my head. For an alien of Elohim am I from the belly of my mother. If I shaved, and my strength will turn from me. And I will be sick. And I will be as each of the adam.”

Lamentations 4:7 Her aliens were purer than snow. They were more dazzling than milk. They reddened a bone more than corners. A sapphire is their separation/cut-off.

Amos 2:11 “And I made-stand from your sons for prophets and from your chosen-ones for aliens. Is it not even this, Children of Israel?” declared Yehovah. 12 “And ye watered the aliens wine to drink. And ye commanded upon the prophets, saying, ‘Ye shall not prophesy!’”

Psalm 89:40 Thou hast spurned the covenant of thy servant! Thou hast pierced to the land his alien!

Psalm 132:18 I will clothe his enemies shame! And upon him is the flower of his alien!

Proverbs 27:24 For wealth is not to hiding. And if a alien is to generation generation!