Nazir

The Nazir pun in a nutshell

Most Nazir puns use the N-prefixed Niph‘al passive / reflexive form. You basically put an N in front of a verb “doing X”, and then it means “X-ed”.

• The Talmudic Nazir is officially a monk title: zr means “strange” & “alien”, so n-zr means to be “estranged” from society and live secluded as a monk.
• For the spooks, this means to “veil” themselves: ˀzr means “veil” & “belt”, so n-ˀzr means “veiled”.
• Nazir is also a government title: nṣr means “watching” & “guarding”. The letter tsade is often sloppily transcribed as Z, so a Nazir is an “overseer”.
• The spook “veiling” is not a literal veil, but about appearances: nṣr means “watching”, but Arabic nẓr also has the meaning of “likeness” & “similarity”.
• The spook aristocrats disguise themselves as little guys: ṣˁr means “little” & “insignificant”, so n-ṣˁr means “made little”.

Semitic n-zr for “estranged”

The Talmudic Nazir is officially explained as a monk of sorts. The word is also often translated as “monk”.

The grammar behind this is simply that Semitic זר zr means “strange”, and one passive form is נזר nzr for “estranged”.

This may actually be a valid meaning for the spook Nazir as well: Many spook aristocrats temporarily “estrange” themselves from their aristocratic spook society, and live as moles among commoners. That way, whenever the spook governments enact a scam, many apparently independent “common” people can readily confirm that it’s all really true, and not a hoax. Though it always is.

(As an aside, the “stranger” seems to be derived from “edge”. That’s why nazir also means “crown” & “wreath”.)

That word for “strange” also existed in Egyptian, as ḏr. Via “edge”, it may be related to Mitsraim.

Semitic n-ˀzr for “veiled”

The term ازار ˀzˀr izar describes a very long veil in Arabic, and generally and long & thin covering.

In Hebrew (and Persian), the same word mostly describes breeches, wide belts & waistbands. The Hebrew term אזר ˀzr azar is translated as “belt”, and is also a verb meaning “to gird”. The N-prefixed passive נאזר n-ˀzr nezar occurs in the Bible in Psalms 65:6, and is translated as “girded” or “clothed”.

But if ˀzr means both “belt” & “veil”, then the verb can also mean both “to gird” & “to veil”. And the passive N-form then means both “girded” & “veiled”. The spook Nazir is a “veiled” person!

Now the “veil” meaning is only attested for Arabic in today’s dictionaries. But as Phoenicians, the spook aristocrats were running a global merchant empire, with headquarters all over the Fertile Crescent. And in Phoenician times, all Semitic dialects were written in the same Phoenician script anyway. So we can be pretty sure that the spooks knew about the “veil” meaning.

Ultimately, both veil & girdle are to “surround” you with something else. If that word is made so central, we can be sure it means a disguise of some sort to the spooks. (For futher discussion, see Israel.)

This word may have existed in Egyptian as well, as jdr.

Semitic n-ṣˁr for “becoming little”

There are so many different spook words for “disguise”, one wonders what is so special about the Nazir concept. Maybe it emphasizes that a spook taking up that vow really lives as a “little guy”, among commoners. He has “made himself little”.

And that is another pun: Semitic צער ṣˁr tsoar means “little” & “insignificant”. That’s us, in the aristocrat’s view. The grammar form n-ṣˁr would then in theory mean “made little”. I haven’t found it attested in Hebrew, but Arabic n-zr means “making little” in many ways, even “belittling”.

Interestingly, the Arabic form is spelled with Z, so Arabic nazir literally means “being little”.

Semitic nṣr / nṭr / nẓr for “overseer”

A Semitic root with the spellings nṣr / nṭr / nẓr means “watching” (think “Nazaar amulet”. However, it is also an official government title, often transcribed with Z as nazir. You could translate it as “overseer” or “supervisor”.

This is to remind us that the “estranged” spooks, who have “made themselves little”, never become our actual brethren. They are moles, and simply carry out these missions as part of their role as our “overseers”.

The Arabic title nāẓir (ناظر, Turkish: nazır) refers to an overseer in a general sense. In Islam, it is the normal term for the administrator of a waqf (charitable endowment). The office or territory of a nāẓir is a nazirate.

According to al-Qābisī, writing in the tenth century, the pagan ruler of Tadmakka appointed a superintendent, which al-Qābisī calls a nāẓir, from among the Muslims living in his land to oversee them. This was probably a common arrangement in the Sahara and Sahel regions.

The title was used in Egypt for the heads of government departments and agencies before it adopted a modern cabinet system. It was synonymous with inspector, supervisor or controller. In Egypt it may also be used for the directors or managers of commercial enterprises.

Wikipedia: Nazir (title)

Arabic nẓr for “similarity”

The Arabic form of the “watching” root is nẓr. In Arabic, this root has the additional meaning of “similarity” & “likeness” — which is what spookery is all about! I haven’t found it in Hebrew or anywhere else though.