Numbers 6:2 (KJV)

Cross-references

When. Nu 6:5 Nu 6:6 Ex 33:16 Le 20:26 Pr 18:1 Ro 1:1 2Co 6:16 Ga 1:15 Heb 7:27

to vow. Le 27:2 Re 12:5 1Sa 1:28 Am 2:11 Am 2:12 Lu 1:15 Ac 21:23 Ac 21:24

separate themselves.The word {yaphli,} rendered "shall separate themselves," signifies, "the doing of something extraordinary," and is the same word as is used concerning the making a singular vow. (Le 27:2); it seems to convey the idea of a person's acting from extraordinary zeal for God and religion. to separate themselves. or, to make themselves Nazarites.{Lahazzir,} from {nazar,} to be separate; hence {nazir,} a Nazarite, i.e., a person separated; one peculiarly devoted to the service of God by being separated from all servile employments. The Nazarites were of two kinds: such as were devoted to God by their parents in their infancy, or even sometimes before they were born; and such as devoted themselves. The former were Nazarites for life; and the latter commonly bound themselves to observe the laws of the Nazarites for a limited time. The Nazarites for life were not bound to the same strictness as the others, concerning whom the laws relate.

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