Did Samson and Jesus have dreadlocks?

Question

The bible says they both were Nazarenes and also that Samson had 7 locks of hair. So is it the case. I know that the hindu God Shiva has dreads so it is a form of closeness to diety.

Answer 1

Samson was a Nazirite. That's different from being a Nazarene. It is possible that Samson had dreadlocks, because the Nazirites kept their hair long, and could groom their hair with their hands, but not with a comb. As for Jesus, His hairstyle wasn't specifically mentioned in the Bible, so it's a matter of speculation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazirite

Answer 2

No, in case you want to work out the way Jews wore their hair, look at Hassidic Jews in the present day. They keep on with the regulation of Moses and the Talmud which says no longer to minimize the hair around the temples. Dreadlocks are a very cutting-aspect theory. And the be conscious Nazarean comes from Nazareth--a city. Hair that's by no ability combed or brushed will certainly mat, no longer cord into locks.

Answer 3

If they had no brushes to disentangle their hair... it is rather likely they had some of those...

Greetings!!!

BTW, for what I can remember about hairstyles in the bible from my childhood... the bible in spanish I read said samson had "trenzas" (trenza = plait) not locks. Nor dreadlocks.

Answer 4

All this speculation of Nazirite being Rastafarian, first of all you don't drink, don't smoke, don't eat anything of dead corpses and don't touch dead animals or human carcass. Plus a Rastafarian is not even a practiced Jew. Thats From Palestinian but a Rastafarian is like African that started to live in the Carribean

Answer 5

Samson likely had his in a pony-tail kinda thing (not effeminate, just because it was long). but there's a difference between "nazareene" and "the nazarite vow".

Jesus probably had shorter hair, as He didn't take the vow, but was raised in Nazareth. likely similar to Obi-Wan's haircut in SW2

Answer 6

Samson was a Nazirite and so was Samuel.

The term "nazirite" comes from the Hebrew word nazir meaning "consecrated" or "separated". This vow required the man or woman to:

Abstain from wine, wine vinegar, grapes, raisins, and according to some - alcohol and vinegar from alcohol
Refrain from cutting the hair on one's head
Avoid corpses and graves, even those of family members, and any structure which contains such

In general there are three types of nazirites:

A nazirite for a set time
A permanent nazirite
A nazirite like Samson


The practice of a nazirite vow is part of the ambiguity of the Greek term "Nazarene" that appears in the New Testament; the sacrifice of a lamb and the offering of bread does suggest a relationship with Christian symbolism.

While a saying in (Matthew 11:18-19 and Luke 7:33-35) attributed to Jesus makes it doubtful that he, reported to be "a winebibber", was a nazarite during his ministry, the verse ends with the curious statement, "But wisdom is justified of all her children". The advocation of the ritual consumption of wine as part of the Eucharist, the tevilah in Mark 14:22-25 indicated he kept this aspect of the nazarite vow when Jesus said, "Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God." The ritual with which Jesus commenced his ministry and his vow in Mark 14:25 and Luke 22:15-18 at the end of his ministry, do respectively reflect the initial and final steps (purification by immersion in water and abstaining from wine) inherent in a nazirite vow.

Luke clearly was aware that wine was forbidden in ascetic practice, for the angel Luke 1:13-15 that announces the birth of John the Baptist foretells that "he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb", in other words, a nazarite from birth, the implication being that John had taken a lifelong nazarite vow. In (Acts 21:20-24) Luke states that Paul was advised to avoid the hostility of the "Jews there are which believe" (in Jesus) in Jerusalem who had heard Paul taught against the law by purifying himself and accompanying four men to the temple who had taken nazaritic vows , a stratagem that only delayed the inevitable mob assault on him. This event brought about the accusation in Acts 24:5-18 that Paul was the "ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes", and thus provides further verification that the term Nazarene was a mistranslation of the term Nazarite.

Nazarite vows do not appear to have been understood by the Gentiles, nor are they even mentioned in patristic writings; therefore, some look to "nazarite" rather than "of Nazareth" or "the Nazarene" for the origin of these Hebrew/Aramaic epithets for Jesus. This conclusion is based in part on the prophecy in Matthew 2:23 that says of Jesus, "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." It is doubtful that the prophets had actually said 'Nazarene', rather than 'Nazarite', because reference bibles state that the prophecy cited in Matt. 2:23 is in reference to Judges 13:5-7 concerning Samson's description as "a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death". In addition, there is no word translated ‘Nazarene’ or any reference to a city of 'Nazareth' in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). Furthermore, although Luke 1:13-15 describes John the Baptist as a Nazarite from birth, John implied that Jesus was holier than he in Matthew 3:13-15, which says, "Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him". Thus Jesus was baptized, immersion in water being a fulfillment of the nazarite vow.

Answer 7

Samson was under a nazarite vow. Jesus was from Nazareth. Its two different things. No neither had dreadlocks.

Answer 8

More the fact that combs and brushes were pretty rare in their day. It is entirely possible that they had dreads.

Answer 9

Samson was Badass, I bet he did.

Jesus, nope I don't think so.

Answer 10

jesus had dreads!!!!!!! im sure of it