Num 6:2, Judg 13:4-7, Lam 4:7, Luk 1:3-17 | TSK | STEP | 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. (Le 27:2); 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

When.

5,6; Ex 33:16; Le 20:26; Pr 18:1; Ro 1:1; 2Co 6:16; Ga 1:15

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 vow.

Le 27:2; Jud 13:5; 1Sa 1:28; Am 2:11,12; Lu 1:15; Ac 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.

Judges 13:4-7

drink not.

14; Nu 6:2,3; Lu 1:15

eat not.

Le 11:27,47; Ac 10:14

no rasor.

Nu 6:2,3,5; 1Sa 1:11

begin.

1Sa 7:13; 2Sa 8:1; 1Ch 18:1

A man.

De 33:1; Jos 14:6; 1Sa 2:27; 9:6; 1Ki 17:18,24; 2Ki 4:9,16

1Ti 6:11

countenance was.

Mt 28:3; Lu 9:29; Ac 6:15

terrible.

22; Ge 28:16,17; Ex 3:2,6; Da 8:17; 10:5,11; Mt 28:4; Re 1:17

but I asked, etc.The Vulgate renders this cause very differently, the negative Not being omitted: {Quem cùm interrogâssim quis esset, et unde venisset, et quo nomine vocaretur, noluit mihi dicere; sed hoc respondit, etc; "Whom when I asked who he was, and whence he came, and by what name he was called, would not tell me: but this he said," etc. The negative is also wanting in the Septuagint, as it is in the Complutensian Polyglott; [kai erouton auton pothen estin, kai to onoma auton, ouk apengeilen moi.] "And I asked him whence he was, and his name, but he did not tell me." This is also the reading of the Codex Alexandrinus; but the Septuagint in the London Polyglott, the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, read the negative particle with the Hebrew text: I asked Not his name, etc.

his name.

17,18; Ge 32:29; Lu 1:19

Lamentations 4:7

Nazarites.

Nu 6:2-21; Jud 13:5,7; 16:17; Am 2:11,12; Lu 1:15

purer.

1Sa 16:12; Ps 51:7; 144:12; So 5:10; Da 1:15

their polishing.{Gizrathom,} rendered by Dr. Blayney, "their veining," from {gazar,} to divide, intersect, as the blue veins do the surface of the body. This is approved by Dr. A. Clarke, who remarks, "Milk will most certainly well apply to the whiteness of the skin; the beautiful ruby to the ruddiness of the flesh; and the sapphire, in its clear, transcendent purple, to the veins in a fine complexion."