To dedicate
נָזַרStrong’s H5144nazar (na-zar)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nazar is the Hebrew word usually translated “keep separate”, “so they may separate themselves” and “nazirite”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
Meaning
- To dedicate, consecrate, separate(Niphal) to dedicate oneself, devote oneself · (Hiphil) to keep sacredly separate
- (Hiphil) to be a Nazarite, live as a Nazarite
How it's translated
- and you will keep separate 1
- so they may separate themselves 1
- to be a nazirite 1
- he will keep separate 1
- he will be a nazirite 1
- being a nazirite he 1
- and he will be a nazirite 1
- so he may separate himself 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 5
- Leviticus 2
- Ezekiel 1
- Hosea 1
- Zechariah 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 15:31Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
- Leviticus 22:2Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.
- Numbers 6:2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:
- Numbers 6:3He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
- Numbers 6:5All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
- Numbers 6:6All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.
Hebrew dictionary
נָזַר nazar · to dedicate
1) to dedicate, consecrate, separate 1a) (Niphal) to dedicate oneself, devote oneself 1b) (Hiphil) to keep sacredly separate
נָזַר nazar · be a Nazarite
(Hiphil) to be a Nazarite, live as a Nazarite
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dedicate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEDICATE, verb transitive
[Latin To vow, promise, devote, dedicate See Class Dg. No. 12, 15, 45. The sense is to send, to throw; hence, to set, to appoint.]
- To set apart and consecrate to a divine Being, or to a sacred purpose; to devote to a sacred use, by a solemn act, or by religious ceremonies; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple, an altar, or a church, to God or to a religious use.
- To appropriate solemnly to any person or purpose; to give wholly or chiefly to.
- To inscribe or address to a patron; as, to dedicate a book.
All definitions and other forms of “dedicate”
DEDICATE, adjective
Consecrated; devoted; appropriated.
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.