Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- proper n. A Jew bound by a vow to leave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Among the ancient Hebrews, a religious devotee, separated to the Lord by a special vow, the terms of which are carefully prescribed in Num. vi.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term Nazarite signifies _separated_; and is commonly applied to persons who make a vow to live in a more holy manner than others, either during a certain specified number of years, or ever after the pledge is given, without recantation or change.
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Such a person as this was called a Nazarite, a word which means "one who has a vow"; and Manoah's child was to be a Nazarite, and under a vow, as long as he lived.
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Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, consecrated to God from my mother's womb: If my head be shaven, my strength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like other men.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision
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He is not explicitly called a Nazarite, nor is there any mention of the unshaven hair, but the severe austerity of his life agrees with the supposed asceticism of the Nazarites.
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'Yes, Gibbs; for some years I have been a Nazarene -- that is, a Nazarite, with the top half of my head; now I am going to change about and be a
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The only one of these actually called a Nazarite is Samson.
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As the Nazarite was a witness for the straitness of the law, as distinguished from the freedom of the gospel, his sacrifice of himself was a submission to the letter of the rule.
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Overbeck and his followers, the "Nazarite" school, did not fail to appear during Overbeck's lifetime, nor is it lacking now.
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"Nazarite" which was a name given to those to took a religious vow to abstain from such things as wine, and from cutting their hair.
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While some view growing their hair as optional, most Rastafarians see it as demanded by the Nazarite Vow in the Bible (Numbers 6: 5), "There shall no razor come upon his head."
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