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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comFausset Bible Dictionary: Vow
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To be taken voluntarily; but when taken to be conscientiously fulfilled (-23; ; ; Psalm 1.14; ). The Nazarite however was often dedicated froth infancy by the parent. (See NAZARITE.) For instances (See JACOB (-22 with ; -4). (See JACOB.) Vows were of three kinds:
(1) vow of devotion, neder;
(2) of abstinence, 'esar (See CORBAN);
(3) of destruction, cherem (; ) (See ANATHEMA.)
A man could not devote to sacred uses the firstborn of man or beast, as being devoted already (). The law of redeeming vowed land is given (; ; ). An animal fit for sacrifice could not be redeemed; any attempting it had to bring both the animal and its changeling (-10; ). An animal unfit for sacrifice, adding a fifth (-13).
A devoted person became a servant of the sanctuary (). The vow of a daughter or a wife was void if disallowed by the father or husband, otherwise it was binding (-16). The wages of impurity was excluded from vows (-18); "dog" means "Sodomite" (). In Ashtoreth's and the Babylonian Mylitta's worship prostitution for hire devoted to the idol was usual (; ). The head was shaven after a vow (; ).