נָזַר
nâzar · naw-zar'
to hold aloof, i.e. (intransitivey) abstain (from food and drink, from impurity, and even from divine worship (i.e. apostatize)); specifically, to set apart (to sacred purposes), i.e. devote
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to hold aloof, i.e. (intransitivey) abstain (from food and drink, from impurity, and even from divine worship (i.e. apostatize)); specifically, to set apart (to sacred purposes), i.e. devote
- to hold aloof, i.e. (intransitivey) abstain (from food and drink, from impurity, and even from divine worship (i.e. apostatize))
- specifically, to set apart (to sacred purposes), i.e. devote
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: consecrate, separate(-ing, self).
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to cut, to sustain › the head, the highest
The seed, life continuing that works to cut, to sustain of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָזַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
10 occurrences · 10 OT · 0 NT · 10 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- thus shall ye separate1 · 10%
- that they separate1 · 10%
- to separate1 · 10%
- he shall separate1 · 10%
- in the which he separateth1 · 10%
- that he separateth1 · 10%
- and he shall consecrate1 · 10%
- which separateth1 · 10%
- and separated1 · 10%
- separating1 · 10%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.