Hebrew ne.tser (natser/natsar) = a branch; a shoot; a descendant http://biblehub.com/hebrew/5342.htm
netser is transliterated to Nazir
We see a major messianic link with netser in Isaiah 11:1
Isaiah 11
1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse1, and a Branch [netser] shall grow out of his roots
2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears;
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth ...
1 Jesse is the Father of King David
nazirite/nazarite, from nazir, means under a vow/consecrated/vow of 'separation'/crownedZechariah 3:8
Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch.
Judges 13:1-7 (NKJV)
1And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not <snip>
3 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing
5 For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
6 So the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A Man of God came to me, and His countenance was like the countenance of the Angel of God, very awesome; but I did not ask Him where He was from, and He did not tell me His name. 7 And He said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. Now drink no wine or similar drink, nor eat anything unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”
The Septuagint uses a number of terms to translate the 16 uses of nazir in the Hebrew Bible, such as
"he who vowed" (euxamenos εὐξαμένος) [ Numbers 6:21]x
"he who was made holy" (egiasmenos ἡγιασμένος) [Amos 2:11]y
- x Amos is the first prophet to use the term "the Day of the Lord"; a phrase important in later prophetic and apocalyptic literature.
y all of Numbers 6 espouses the role of Sacrifice and a Sin-offering by a Nazarite
- France, RT. The Gospel of Matthew, pp. 92-93.
There are other variations of Nazorean/Nazarene, and interesting NT groupings of them: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazarene_(title)#Variants
Natzeret is the word netzer plus the feminine ending, designated by the letter Tav
and Nazeroth is the feminine-plural
In Acts, Paul of Tarsus is called "a ringleader of the sect of the Nazoreans" (Acts 24:5); and Paul is elsewhere described as taking a vow and shaving his head, paralleling Numbers 6
"And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow"
Acts 18:18 (KJV).
"Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them; Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law"
Acts 21:23-24 (KJV)
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