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RASHIS COVERED: Nu22-25a Nu22-25b Standard Grammar conjugation SPECIAL: Some people think Rashi DIFFICULT or PROFOUND. Todays Rashi reviews the simple grammar that we all learn in School. See--anybody can learn Rashi--that includes you & me VERY BRIEF SUMMARY ------------------ Rashi has 6 main goals in his commentary. One of them is the explanation of Grammatical theory. Classical Hebrew Grammatical theory asserts that the Hebrew language rests on 3-letter roots. Each root is assigned a meaning. These roots can be CONJUGATED in various ways to indicate TIME(Past, future), PERSON (1st, 2nd, 3rd), PLURALITY (singular vs plural), etc. Thus SHMARTI means I HAD WATCHED while TISHMERI means SHE WILL WATCH. Nu22-25 contains the root Lamed-Cheth-Tzade in 2 modes (Passive active) Rashi translates: The Donkey was SHOVED (Passive) into the wall and then SHOVED (Active) Bilam into the wall REFERENCES ---------- The RashiYomi Grammar page: http://www.RashiYomi.com/grammar.htm This posting appears in http://www.RashiYomi.com/h14n12.htm There are many classical references and modern books on Hebrew grammar. My favorite however is the terse but comprehensive appendix to IBN SHOSHANS Dictionary (Volume 5 has about 2 dozen tables covering most of classical Hebrew grammar) TODAYS LIST ----------- Todays list is a LIST of verses with similar forms. Note that ACTIVE conjugation is RARE (See the footnotes and examples) | |||
| MODE | ROOT | ROOT-form | IBN SHOSHAN |
| PASSIVE | Nu22-25 | Tee-La-Chaytz | Table 1; Full roots |
| PASSIVE | Gn06-11 | Tee-Sa-Chaytz | Table 1: Full roots*1 |
| ACTIVE | Ps38-03 | Vat-Tin-Chas | Table 1: Footnote #10*2 |
| ACTIVE | Gn13-11 | Vay-Yiv-Char | Table 1: Footnote #10*3 |
| ACTIVE | Nu05-27 | Vat-tim-ol | Table 1:*4 |
| COMMENTS | |||
*1 Many examples are taken from the Grammatical Form
Konkordance of Alfred Silberman Form 4619
*2 The traditional form is Vat-tif-kod. The rarer form
Vat-tin-Chas is sometimes used particularly when the
the second root letter is guttural (These exceptions
are indicated in Footnote #10 of Ibn Shoshan and may
have motivated Rashi to comment here since the conjugation
is rare and as a Masorite Rashi particularly commented on
Rare items)
*3 Also see Silbermans Grammatical Form Konkordance--form 4509
*4 Silberman Form 4557. Note according to Silberman NO 1-chet-3
root is conjugated with a PATACH AND an overturning VAV.
However Form 116 in Silberman shows Ve-Niv-Char (not
ve-niv-chor)
---------------------------- LONGER FOOTNOTES ------------------
*10 I have advanced the idea that Rashi particularly commented
on grammar when the grammatical phenomenon
- was RARE
- or reflected a confusion with a SIMILAR FORM.
In this verse we have
- The rare occurence of the PATACH ACTIVE FUTURE
- 2 forms of the same verb in the same verse
This probably motivated Rashi to comment
My opinion is that Rashi was not really a commentator but
rather a MASORITE who was trying to preserve the Biblical
text---the commentary was secondary. For a full discussion
as well as a DATABASE definition of Rarity see my
full (Technical) article on the Rashi rules at
http://www.Rashiyomi.com/database.htm
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