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VERSE: Lv14-14a
RASHIS COVERED: Lv14-14a Lv14-14b
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(C) Dr Hendel, Jan-03 | ||
VERY BRIEF SUMMARY ------------------ One of Rashis 6 main goals is to explain the meaning of words the same way a dictionary explains the meaning of words. One vehicle of word meaning presented by Rashi is the two letter root theory. As everyone know the Hebrew language is based on 3 letter roots which are CONJUGATED in various ways. For example the root S-M-R can mean, I WATCHED (ShMaRTi), YOU WILL WATCH (TiShMoR) etc based on conjugation. In addition to the 3 letter theory Rashi believed in the 2 Letter root theory--that is 3 letter roots govern GRAMMATICAL conjugation while 2 letter roots govern MEANING. Every 3 letter root has a meaning that is determined by the meanings of the 1 and 2 letter roots comprising the root. For example: The letter NUN denotes INTENSITY, ALOT, or INTRINSICness. The list below illustrates this. EXAMPLE ------- - Tauv-Caph means INSIDE. Tauv-NUN-Caph therefore means ALOT INSIDE--in fact Tauv-NUN-Caph denotes the soft inside of the ear. EXAMPLE ------- - BO denotes INSIDE. Beth-Hey-NUN means INTRINSIC to INSIDENESS. In fact, the Bo-Hen denotes the THUMB the organ that enables one to hold an object (The thumb opposes the other fingers and enables held objects to be inside the fist) | ||
| ITEM | DETAIL | |
| RASHI RULE CLASS: | WORD MEANING | |
| RASHI SUBRULE CLASS: | 2 Letter semantic roots | |
| RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE | #7 | |
| SEE BELOW | LIST910a | |
| ROOTS illustrating | NUN=alot,intrinsic | |
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(C) Dr Hendel, Jan-03 | |||||
Rashi believed in 3 letter conjugation roots and 2 letter meaning roots. That is, Rashi believed that each root is conjugated according to the rules of 3 letter roots. But Rashi supplemented this with the belief that each root can be explained by ascribing meaning to individual letters and seeing the 3 letter roots meaning as emanating from its letters. A simple example is that Nun-Beth(HOLLOW) means CHILD*1 OF (NUN) INSIDE(Beth). Other examples where NUN means CHILD=POSSESSED are presented below. In the list below the English translation is CAPPED while the Hebrew is LOWERCASE | |||||
| ROOT | MEANS | NUN MEANS | END ROOT | MEANS | |
| Nun-Beth | HOLLOW | CHILD OF | beth | INSIDE | |
| Nun-Zayin-Kuf | DAMAGE | CHILD OF | z-k | SPARKS | |
| Nun-Mem-Resh | LEOPARD | CHILD OF | m-r | BRAZENNESS | |
| Nun-Tzde-Lamd | SAVE | CHILD OF | z-l | SHADE | |
| Nun-Kuph-Mem | REVENGE | CHILD OF | k-m | STANDING UP | |
| Tauv-NUN-Caph | Earlobe | CHILD OF | T-Ch | INSIDE | |
| Beth-Hey-NUN | Thumb | CHILD OF | Beth | INSIDE*2 | |
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*1 Throughout the Bible if you want to state that someone was KNOWN for something then you state that the person was the CHILD OF it. eg RIF RAFS are called CHILDS OF NO-NAME *2 Functionally, the THUMB opposes other fingers and enables humans to grasp objects. Hence the THUMB enables things to be held INSIDE ones hand | |||||