Num 6:2-4, Judg 13:4-6, Mat 11:18, Luk 7:33 | 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 6:2-4

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. Besides the religious nature of this institution, it seems to have been partly of a civil and prudential use. The sobriety and temperance which the Nazarites were obliged to observe were very conducive to health. Accordingly, they were celebrated for their fair and ruddy complexion; being said to be both whiter than milk and more ruddy than rubies (La 4:7); the sure signs of a sound and healthy constitution. It may here be observed, that when God intended to raise up Samson, by his strength of body, to scourge the enemies of Israel, he ordered, that from his infancy he should drink no wine, but live by the rule of the Nazarites, because that would greatly contribute to make him strong and healthy; intending, after nature had done her utmost to form this extraordinary instrument of his providence, to supply her defect by his own supernatural power. See Jenning's Jewish Antiquities, B. I. c. 8.

Le 10:9; Jud 13:14; Pr 31:4,5; Jer 35:6-8; Am 2:12; Lu 1:15

Lu 7:33,34; 21:34; Eph 5:18; 1Th 5:22; 1Ti 5:23

separation. or, Nazariteship.

5,8,9,12,13,18,19,21

vine tree. Heb. vine of the wine.

Judges 13:4-6

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

Matthew 11:18

John.

3:4; Jer 15:17; 16:8,9; Lu 1:15; 1Co 9:27

He.

10:25; 2Ki 9:11; Jer 29:26; Ho 9:7; Joh 7:20; 8:48; 10:20

Ac 26:24

Luke 7:33

came.

1:15; Jer 16:8-10; Mt 3:4; Mr 1:6

He.

Mt 10:25; Joh 8:48,52; 10:20; Ac 2:13