France, R. T., The Gospel of Matthew, pp. 92–93. See Judges 13:5–7. The Septuagint gives "Nazirite" as ναζιραῖον, while Matthew gives Nazorean as Ναζωραῖος.
"Although modern NT translations repeated references to 'Jesus of Nazareth', 'Jesus the Nazarene' is the more common form of words in the original Greek version." (Wilson, Ian, (1984) Jesus: The Evidence, p. 67.) See, for example, Luke 18:37.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (1906/2003), p. 665. "Some, however, think that the name of the city must be connected with the name of the hill behind it, from which one of the finest prospects in Palestine is obtained, and accordingly they derive it from the Hebrew notserah, i.e., one guarding or watching." (Easton's Bible Dictionary, (1897)). "... if the word Nazareth is be derived from Hebrew at all, it must come from this root [i.e. נֹצְרִ, nostri, to watch]" (Merrill, Selah, (1881) Galilee in the Time of Christ, p. 116.
"The etymology of Nazara is neser" ("Nazareth", The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911.) "NAZARETH, NAZARENE - Place name meaning, 'branch'." (Holman's Bible Dictionary, 1994.) "Generally supposed to be the Greek form of the Hebrew netser, a "shoot" or "sprout". (Easton's Bible Dictionary, (1897)).
"The name has obvious reference to Nazareth", ("Nazarene", The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911.) Schaeder, H., "Nazarenos, Nazoraios" in G. Kittel, Theological Dict. of the New Testament. p. 874. Albright, W., "Nazareth and Nazoraean", Journal of Biblical Literature 65:2 (June 1946), pp.397–401.
"The etymology of Nazara is neser" ("Nazareth", The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911.) "NAZARETH, NAZARENE - Place name meaning, 'branch'." (Holman's Bible Dictionary, 1994.) "Generally supposed to be the Greek form of the Hebrew netser, a "shoot" or "sprout". (Easton's Bible Dictionary, (1897)).
The Oxford Bible commentary. Page 850. John Barton, John Muddiman. 2001. Further, in Acts 24:5 Christians are 'the sect of the Nazarenes' (an appellation also attested in Tertullian, Adv. Marc. 4.8), and in rabbinic writings Christians are nosrim.