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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 Lv11-20a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n13.htm
      Brief Summary: Shin-Resh-Tzade = crawling animal; Ayin-Vav-Pay = birds; Shin-Resh-Tzade-Ayin-Vav-Pay - crawling-birds = insect type flies.

An idiom is a collection of words which means more than the sum of the meanings of each of the phrases individual words.

The Hebrew Shin-Resh-Tzade refers to any crawling animal. The Hebrew Ayin-Vav-Pay refers principally to birds. The combined words Shin-Resh-Tzade-Ayin-Vav-Pay refers to insect type flies.

Advanced Rashi: Many people are unaware that there are modern language institutes whose job is to coin new words based on existing Hebrew. The Hebrew and other language institutes coins such words as tele-vision or break-fast or broad-cast. Each of these words is an idiomatic hybrid of two words which hint at the new concept, similar to crawling-bird for insect-flies.


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