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      2. RASHI METHOD: WORD MEANING
      BRIEF EXPLANATION: The meaning of words can be explained either by
      • (2a) translating an idiom, a group of words whose collective meaning transcends the meaning of its individual component words,
      • (2b) explaining the nuances and commonality of synonyms-homographs,
      • (2c) describing the usages of connective words like also,because,if-then, when,
      • (2d) indicating how grammatical conjugation can change word meaning
      • (2e) changing word meaning using the figures of speech common to all languages such as irony and oxymorons.
      This examples applies to Rashis Ex20-15d
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1206.htm
      Brief Summary: HLACH means to move/walk; NA means to TREMBLE/RATTLE.

When Rashi uses the synonym method he does not explain the meaning of a word but rather the distinction between two similar words both of whose meanings we already know.

    The following Hebrew words all refer to motion
  • Hey-Lamed-Caph, Halach walk, move
  • Resh-Vav-Tzade, Rotz run
  • Nun-Vav-Ayin, Noa rattle.

    In our article Peshat and Derash: A New Intuitive and Logical Approach, which can be found on the world-wide-web at http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rashi.pdf we have advocated punchy translations of Biblical verses as a means of presenting Rashi comments. For example:
  • The following translation of verse Ex20-15d embeds the Rashi translation Noa, rattle And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the sound of the shofar, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they were rattled, and stood far away.
  • The following translation of verse Is06-04 embeds the Rashi translation Noa, rattle And the posts of the entrance rattled at the voice of the announcer, and the house was filled with smoke.
  • The following translation of verse Nu32-07 embeds the Rashi translation Noa, rattle And why do you rattle the heart of the people of Israel from going over to the land which the Lord has given them? 


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