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Razor

The Nazarites were forbidden to make use of the razor (Num. 6:5; This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
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  • Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H4177, H8593
Hebrew
מוֹרָה · môwrâh

Strong’s and original-language information

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

תַּ֫עַר

H8593
Transliteration
taʻar
Pronunciation
tah'-ar
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
13

Glosses

razor, sheath, (pen-) knife, razor, scabbard, shave, sheath.

Lexicon definition

a knife or razor (as making bare)

also a scabbard (as being bare, i.e. empty)

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Razor

The Nazarites were forbidden to make use of the razor (Num. 6:5; Judg. 13:5). At their consecration the Levites were shaved all over with a razor (Num. 8:7; comp. Ps. 52:2; Ezek. 5:1).

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Razor

Indexed occurrences: 6

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All Scripture references19 references

Numbers 2

Numbers 6:5Numbers 8:7

Judges 2

Judges 13:5Judges 16:17

1 Samuel 2

1 Samuel 1:111 Samuel 17:51

2 Samuel 1

2 Samuel 20:8

Ezra 2

Ezra 1:9Ezra 9:3

Psalms 2

Psalms 52:2Psalms 52:4

Isaiah 1

Isaiah 7:20

Jeremiah 2

Jeremiah 36:23Jeremiah 47:6

Ezekiel 5

Ezekiel 5:1Ezekiel 21:8Ezekiel 21:9Ezekiel 21:10Ezekiel 21:35

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RAZOR

Nave’s Topical Bible references for RAZOR.

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Dictionary

Barber

Found only once, in Ezek. 5:1, where reference is made to the Jewish custom of shaving the head as a sign of mourning. The Nazarites were untouched by the razor from their birth (Num. 6:5). Comp. Judg. 16:19.

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Dictionary

Beard

The mode of wearing it was definitely prescribed to the Jews (Lev. 19:27; 21:5). Hence the import of Ezekiel's (5:1-4) description of the "razor" i.e., the agents of an angry providence being used against the guilty nation of the Jews. It was a part of a Jew's daily toilet to anoint his beard with oil and perfume (Ps. 133:2). Beards were trimmed with the most fastidious care (2 Sam. 19:24), and their neglet was an indication of deep sorrow (Isa. 15:2; Jer. 41:5). The custom was to shave or pluck off the hair as a sign of mourning (Isa. 50:6; Jer. 48:37; Ezra 9:3). The beards of David's ambassadors were cut off by hanun (2 Sam. 10:4) as a mark of indignity. On the other hand, the Egyptians carefully shaved the hair off their faces, and they compelled their slaves to do so also (Gen. 41:14).

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Knife

(1.) Heb. hereb, "the waster," a sharp instrument for circumcision (Josh. 5:2, 3, lit. "knives of flint;" comp. Ex. 4:25); a razor (Ezek. 5:1); a graving tool (Ex. 20:25); an axe (Ezek. 26:9). (2.) Heb. maakeleth, a large knife for slaughtering and cutting up food (Gen. 22:6, 10; Prov. 30:14). (3.) Heb. sakkin, a knife for any purpose, a table knife (Prov. 23:2). (4.) Heb. mahalaph, a butcher's knife for slaughtering the victims offered in sacrifice (Ezra 1:9). (5.) Smaller knives (Heb. ta'ar, Jer. 36:26) were used for sharpening pens. The pruning-knives mentioned in Isa. 18:5 (Heb. mizmaroth) were probably curved knives.

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Razor

The Nazarites were forbidden to make use of the razor (Num. 6:5; Judg. 13:5). At their consecration the Levites were shaved all over with a razor (Num. 8:7; comp. Ps. 52:2; Ezek. 5:1).

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