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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Razor

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Razor

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


Naves Topical Index
Razor

Nazarite forbidden to use
Numbers 6:5

Figurative
Psalms 52:2; Isaiah 7:20; Ezekiel 5:1


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Razor

Besides other usages, the practice of shaving the head after the completion of a vow must have created among the Jews a necessity for the special trade of a barber. (Leviticus 14:8; Numbers 6:9,18; 8:7; Judges 13:5; Isaiah 7:20; Ezekiel 5:1; Acts 18:18) The instruments of his work were probably, as in modern times, the razor, the basin, the mirror, and perhaps also the scissors. See (2 Samuel 14:26) Like the Levites, the Egyptian priests were accustomed to shave their whole bodies.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Razor

RA'ZOR, noun [Latin rasus, rado, to scrape.]

An instrument for shaving off beard or hair. Razors of a boar, a boar's tusks.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Razorable

RA'ZORABLE, adjective Fit to be shaved. [Not in use.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Razor-bill

RA'ZOR-BILL, noun An aquatic fowl, the Alca torda; also, the Rhynchops nigra or cut-water.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Razor-fish

RA'ZOR-FISH, noun A species of fish with a compressed body.