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Nazareth (; , ''Naṣrat''; , ''Naṣrath''; (アラビア語:النَّاصِرَة), ''an-Nāṣira'') is the capital and the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel". The population is made up predominantly of Arab citizens of Israel, almost all of whom are either Muslim (69%) or Christian (30.9%).〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2005 )〕 In the New Testament, the city is described as the childhood home of Jesus, and as such is a center of Christian pilgrimage, with many shrines commemorating biblical events. ==Etymology== One conjecture holds that "Nazareth" is derived from one of the Hebrew words for 'branch', namely ''ne·ṣer'', נֵ֫צֶר,〔The other is ''zemach''.〕 and alludes to the prophetic, messianic words in Book of Isaiah 11:1, 'from (Jesse's) roots a Branch (''netzer'') will bear fruit'. One view suggests this toponym might be an example of a tribal name used by resettling groups on their return from exile.〔Bargil Pixner, cited in Paul Barnett,''Jesus & the Rise of Early Christianity: A History of New Testament Times,''InterVarsity Press, 2002 p. 89, n. 80.〕 Alternatively, the name may derive from the verb ''na·ṣar'', נָצַר, "watch, guard, keep,"〔"...if the word ''Nazareth'' is be derived from Hebrew at all, it must come from this root (נָצַר, ''naṣar'', to watch )" (Merrill, Selah, (1881) ''Galilee in the Time of Christ'', p. 116. Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, Charles A. Briggs, ''The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon'' (1906/2003), p. 665.〕 and understood either in the sense of "watchtower" or "guard place", implying the early town was perched on or near the brow of the hill, or, in the passive sense as 'preserved, protected' in reference to its secluded position.〔R. H. Mounce, "Nazareth", in Geoffrey W. Bromiley (ed.) ''The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia,'' Vol. 3 Eerdmans Publishing 1986, pp. 500–501.〕 The negative references to Nazareth in the Gospel of John suggest that ancient Jews did not connect the town's name to prophecy.〔Bauckham, Jude, ''Jude, Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church'', pp. 64–65. See and .〕 Another theory holds that the Greek form ''Nazara'', used in Matthew and Luke, may derive from an earlier Aramaic form of the name, or from another Semitic language form.〔Carruth, 1996, p. (417 ).〕 If there were a ''tsade'' (צ) in the original Semitic form, as in the later Hebrew forms, it would normally have been transcribed in Greek with a ''sigma'' instead of a ''zeta''. This has led some scholars to question whether "Nazareth" and its cognates in the New Testament actually refer to the settlement known traditionally as Nazareth in Lower Galilee.〔T. Cheyne, "Nazareth," in Encyclopaedia Biblica, 1899, col. 3358 f. For a review of the question see H. Schaeder, "Nazarenos, Nazoraios", in Kittel, ''Theological Dictionary of the New Testament'', IV:874 f.〕 Such linguistic discrepancies may be explained, however, by "a peculiarity of the 'Palestinian' Aramaic dialect wherein a sade (ṣ) between two voiced (sonant) consonants tended to be partially assimilated by taking on a zayin (z) sound."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nazareth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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