Nazarene is a title applied to Jesus (c. 4 BC- c. AD 30), who grew up in Nazareth, a town in Galilee, now in northern Israel.

The term "Nazarene" in the phrase Iesous o Nazoraios "Jesus the Nazarene" is traditionally understood as a demonym and translated as "Jesus [the man] of Nazareth," thus comparable with other geographical names in the New Testament. The Gospel of Matthew draws a comparison between Christ coming from Nazareth and an unidentified prophecy, “He will be called a Nazarene.”

Matthew 2:23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. KJV 1611

Unlike most other prophecies that Matthew quotes, this one has no obvious Old Testament source. Some scholars argue that it refers to a passage in the Book of Isaiah, with "Nazarene" a Greek reading of the Hebrew ne·tser (branch), understood as a messianic title. Others point to a passage in the Book of Judges which refers to Samson as a Nazirite, a word that is just one letter off from Nazarene in Greek. The Septuagint gives "Nazirite" in various spellings such as Naziraion (ναζιραιον), while Matthew gives Nazorean as Nazoraios (Ναζωραῖος).

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