'''Notzri''' plural '''Notzrim''' (נוצרים), refers to the "watchmen" of Mount Ephraim in Samaria (Jeremiah 31:16) who became identified with the Scions (Netzarim) of the Houe of Jesse called Nasara in Arabic. It is Thanks to the infestation of Christianity with the followers of Yeshu HaNotzri it has become the [[modern Hebrew]] standard term for "Christian" and "Christians".<ref>"Christian adj. n. נוצרי " (''Notzri'') ''The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary'' (9780198601722) 1999 p.69; ''The New Bantam-Megiddo Hebrew & English Dictionary'', Dr. Sivan Reuven, Dr. Edward A. Levenston, 2009 p.50; [[Ben Yehuda]]'s Hebrew Dictionary, 1940 reprint, p.450</ref> An alternative term, used to translate the [[Greek (language)|Greek]] ''Christianoi'' in many [[Bible translations into Hebrew|translations of the New Testament into Hebrew]], and distinguished from '''Meshiykhiyyim''' "Messianics" (משיחיים).<ref>United Bible Societies Hebrew New Testament, 1997 printing, based on the [[BFBS]] New Testament of [[Franz Delitzsch]]: Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, 1 Peter 4:16.</ref>
