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In the Hebrew Bible, a nazirite or a nazarite (Hebrew: נָזִיר Nāzīr) [1] is an Israelite (i.e. Jewish [2] [3]) man or woman [4] who voluntarily took a vow which is described in Numbers 6:1–21. This vow required the nazirite to: Abstain from wine and all other grape products, such as vinegar and grapes [5]
Wherefore the religious, under the old law, who separated themselves from wine and from the world, and consecrated themselves to God, were called Nazarites. (See Numb. 6:2, seq.) But that Christ would be holy, and consecrated to God, all the prophets foretold, especially Daniel (9:24): “The Holy of Holies—i.e., Christ—shall be anointed.”
Chapter 3: When a Nazarite may cut his hair in case he has vowed only one term of Nazariteship, or when he has vowed two successive terms (§§ 1-2); whether a Nazarite who has become unclean on the last day of his term must recommence his Nazariteship, and the cases in which he must do so (§§ 3-4); the case of one who vows Nazariteship while ...
The Nazarenes (or Nazoreans; Greek: Ναζωραῖοι, romanized: Nazorēoi) [1] were an early Jewish Christian sect in first-century Judaism. The first use of the term is found in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 24, Acts 24:5) of the New Testament, where Paul the Apostle is accused of being a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes ("πρωτοστάτην τε τῆς τῶν ...
Furthermore, the Greek words adelphos and adelphe were not restricted to the meaning of a literal brother or sister in the Bible, nor were their plurals. [89] Unlike some other New Testament authors, the apostle Paul had a perfect command of Greek, a language which has a specific word for 'cousin' and another for 'brother' calling James "the ...
According to the Hebrew Bible she was the mother of Samuel. Biblical narrative The ... She promised he would remain a Nazarite all the days of his life. According to ...
This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with N in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.
Modern Nazarites are expressed largely in personal prayer, which takes place at the end of each month, a time of hardship for theirself or a close friend, or after a death. Nazarites also fast in daylight from Christmas until the dawn of the New Year, this is a symbolism of Jesus gift of purity to human kind.