נָדַר (b. h.; cmp. נָדָה) [to keep off,] to vow (abstinence). Ned. V, 1 שנָדְרוּ זה מזה who vowed not to receive benefits from one another. Ib. III, 6 הנוֹדֵר מיורדי הים he who vows to forbid himself benefits from seafarers. Ib. VI, 1 הנודר מן המבושל who vows to abstain from whatever is cooked. Ib. 77ᵇ כל הנודר אע"פ וכ׳ whoever vows, even if he fulfills his vow, is called a sinner. Ib. I, 1 נ׳ בנזיר … ובקרבן his is a valid vow implying nazariteship and sacrifice. Naz. IV, 4 שנָדְרָה בנזיר who vowed to be a Nazarite; a. fr.—Imperative: דּוֹר. Snh. III, 2 דּוֹר לי בחיי ראשך vow (swear) to me by anything concerning thy person (and I will accept it as a legal oath). Kidd. 41ᵃ דור הנאה ממנו renounce all benefit from him.—Ned. III, 4 נוֹדְרִין להרגין וכ׳ (Tosef. ib. II, 2 תולין) you are not bound by a vow made to escape robbery by highway-men &c. Arakh. I, 1, a. e. נודרים may vow to dedicate the value of a certain person to the sanctuary, contrad. to עָרַךְ q. v.—Part. pass. נָדוּר being under the obligation of a vow; being the legitimate subject of a vow. Shebu. 20ᵃ והוא שנ׳ ובא מאותו היום provided he was bound by a vow to fast on that day; Ned. 12ᵃ והוא שנ׳ באותו היום (v. Rashi a. l.). Ib. שנ׳ ובא מאותו היום ואילך that he has vowed to fast regularly on that day (every week). Ib. 13ᵃ דבר הנ׳ a thing which can be made forbidden by a vow (not otherwise forbidden by law). Ib. 46ᵃ תני ונ׳ הנאה וכ׳ interpret מודר as meaning, and he through his own vow is forbidden any benefit &c. Naz. 9ᵇ נ׳ ונזיר he is under the influence of a vow (of abstention from dried figs) and is also a Nazarite; a. e.
    Nif. - נִידַּר 1) to be made the subject of a vow; to have one’s personal value dedicated to the sanctuary. Arakh. I, 1 נודרים ונִידָּרִים are entitled to dedicate (v. supra) and to be dedicated. Ib. 3 לא נ׳ cannot be dedicated (has no value); a. fr. —2) to be vowed for a sacrifice. Meg. I, 10 כל שהוא נִידָּר, v. נָדַב; a. e.
    Hif. - הִדִּיר to put a person under the influence of a vow; to prohibit, forbid. Keth. VII, 1 המַדִּיר את אשתו מליהנות לו if one vows that his wife shall derive no benefit from him. Ib. המדיר … שלא תטעום וכ׳ if a man (by confirming her vow) subjects his wife to a restriction from tasting &c. Y. ib. 31ᵇ ויש אדם שמדיר את אשתו מחיים (not חבירו) can a man forbid his wife that which belongs to the necessaries of life? Ib. bot. הִדִּירָהּ שלא להשאיל וכ׳ if he, by means of a vow, forbade her to lend to her neighbors a winnow or a sieve. Ned. III, 3 הִדִּירוֹ חבירו וכ׳ if his friend urged him under a vow to dine with him. Naz. IV, 6 מַדִּיר את בנו בנזיר has power to make his (minor) son a Nazarite; a. fr.—Trnsf. to make inaccessible. B. Bath. 22ᵃ במַדִּיר את כותלו, v. מָדַר.
    Hof. - הוּדָּר to be forbidden by a vow; to be subjected to the influence of a vow. Gitt. 35ᵇ נדר שה׳ ברבים a votary prohibition imposed on a person in public; ib. 36ᵃ; a. e. Ned. IV, 1 המוּדָּר הנאה מחבירו he who is forbidden, by his neighbor’s vow, to derive any benefit &c. Ib. 46ᵃ היה אחד מהם מודר וכ׳ if one was forbidden &c., expl. ‘forbidden through his own vow’, v. supra. Ib. V, 4 המודר אסור he against whom the vow was directed is forbidden (all benefits). Ib. I, 1 מוּדְּרַנִי ממך I will be (as if) subjected to a vow of thine forbidding me any benefit at thy hands. Ib. 5ᵃ מודר אני ממך לא משתעינא וכ׳ ‘I will be muddar (kept distant) from thee’ may mean, I will not talk to thee; a. fr.