What Does Numbers 6:2 Mean?

“Speak”

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

near, with or among; often in general, to

“unto the children”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“of Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

“and say”

to say (used with great latitude)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“unto them When either man”

a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)

desire (and so probably in proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if

“or woman”

a woman

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

“shall separate”

properly, perhaps to separate, i.e., distinguish (literally or figuratively); by implication, to be (causatively, make) great, difficult, wonderful

“themselves to vow”

to promise (pos., to do or give something to god)

“a vow”

a promise (to god); also (concretely) a thing promised

“of a Nazarite”

separate, i.e., consecrated (as prince, a nazirite); hence (figuratively from the latter) an unpruned vine (like an unshorn nazirite)

“to separate”

to hold aloof, i.e., (intransitivey) abstain (from food and drink, from impurity, and even from divine worship (i.e., apostatize)); specifically, to s

“themselves unto the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god