* When.
# 5,6; Ex 33:16; Le 20:26; Pr 18:1; Ro 1:1; 2Co 6:16; Ga 1:15|
# Heb 7:27|
* 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.
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