Num 6:2-7 | TSK | e4.org | When ; ; ; ; ; ; ; 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. ( ); it seems to convey the idea of a person's acting from extraordinary zeal for God and religion. to vow ; ; ; ; ; 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.

‏ Numbers 6:2-7

When Num 6:5-6; Exod 33:16; Lev 20:26; Prov 18:1; Rom 1:1; 2Cor 6:16; Gal 1:15; Heb 7:27

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. (Lev 27:2); it seems to convey the idea of a person's acting from extraordinary zeal for God and religion.

to vow Lev 27:2; Judg 13:5; 1Sam 1:28; Amos 2:11-12; Luke 1:15; Acts 21:23-24

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.

Besides the religious nature of this institution, it seems to have been partly of a civil and prudential use. The sobriety and temperance which the Nazarites were obliged to observe were very conducive to health. Accordingly, they were celebrated for their fair and ruddy complexion; being said to be both whiter than milk and more ruddy than rubies (Lam 4:7); the sure signs of a sound and healthy constitution. It may here be observed, that when God intended to raise up Samson, by his strength of body, to scourge the enemies of Israel, he ordered, that from his infancy he should drink no wine, but live by the rule of the Nazarites, because that would greatly contribute to make him strong and healthy; intending, after nature had done her utmost to form this extraordinary instrument of his providence, to supply her defect by his own supernatural power. See Jenning's Jewish Antiquities, B. I. c. 8.

Lev 10:9; Judg 13:14; Prov 31:4-5; Jer 35:6-8; Amos 2:12; Luke 1:15; Luke 7:33-34, Luke 21:34; Eph 5:18; 1Thess 5:22; 1Tim 5:23

separation or, Nazariteship, Num 6:5, Num 6:8-9, Num 6:12-13, Num 6:18-19, Num 6:21

vine tree Heb. vine of the wine

razor Judg 13:5, Judg 16:17, Judg 16:19; 1Sam 1:11; Lam 4:7-8; 1Cor 11:10-15

he shall come Num 19:11-16; Lev 19:28; Jer 16:5-6; Ezek 24:16-18; Matt 8:21-22; Luke 9:59-60; 2Cor 5:16

unclean Num 9:6; Lev 21:1-2, Lev 21:10-12; Ezek 44:25

consecration Heb. separation, This expression, "the consecration, or separation, of God is on his head," denotes his hair, which was the proof and emblem of his separation, and of his subjection to God through all the peculiarities of his Nazarate. St. Paul probably alludes to this circumstance in 1Cor 11:10 by considering a married woman as a Nazarite for life, i.e., separated from all others, and united to her husband, to whom she is subject.