Footnote

a The expression “sign of dedication” translates the Hebrew word nezer, which Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible defines as follows: “Prop[erly] something set apart, i.e. (abstr[act]) dedication (of a priest or Nazirite); hence (concr[ete]) unshorn locks; also (by impl[ication]) a chaplet (espec[ially] of royalty):​—consecration, crown, hair, separation.”