Razor
מוֹרָהStrong’s H4177morah (mo-rah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Morah is the Hebrew word usually translated “razor”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
Meaning
- Razor
How it's translated
- and a razor 2
- a razor 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 2
- 1 Samuel 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 16:17That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
- 1 Samuel 1:11And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹרָה morah · razor
razor
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “razor” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RA'ZOR, noun
[Latin rasus, rado, to scrape.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.