[Ezekiel]

Matthew's reference to a prophecy that Jesus would be a Nazarene (2:23) is interesting when it is considered that our present Old Testament seems to have no such statement. There is a possibility, however, that Matthew alluded to Isaiah 11:1, which prophesies of the Messiah as a Branch from the root of Jesse, the father of David. The Hebrew word for branch in this case is netzer, the source word of Nazarene and Nazareth.

Then again...

Joseph the Antecedent; Joseph the Nazir

[sheik yerbouty]

There are references to Nazerit in Numbers, Judges and Amos..