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VERSE: Gn37-33a

RASHIS COVERED: Gn37-33a Gn47-18a Gn45-17a Gn47-06b Gn47-12a

========================= Gn37-33a =============================

SUCCINCT SUMMARY:
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One of Rashi's 10 major goals is the explanation of GRAMMAR
the same way modern textbooks explain GRAMMAR. There are three
major GRAMMAR submethods:

(a) The goal of the ROOT submethod is to explain all
conjugations and meanings of Biblical roots.
Biblical roots are conjugated with letter prefixes and suffixes
to indicate (i) tense (ii) person (iii) gender (iv) plurality
(v) mode (vi) object (to whom the activity is done) and (vii)
mood. Each of these conjugations has a specific meaning.
Furthermore, these conjugations take on different forms for
roots with weak letters.

(b) The SENTENCE submethod deals with grammatical attributes
of sentences such as (i) word arrangement (Verb Subject vs
Subject Verb) (ii) sentence type  (interrogative, command)
(iii) compound sentences (iv) apposition and (v)
paragraph / sentence development.

(c) The MISCELLANEOUS grammatical methods deal with
(i) agreement (in gender and plurality), (ii) the construct
(iii) pronoun reference (iv) ellipsis (v) noun-verb transforms
(e.g. to dust) (vi) special word usage(e.g. how to use
numbers) (vii) suffix-prefixes (e.g. terminal HEY means
towards).

EXAMPLE Gn37-33a
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ELLIPSIS refers to missing words in a sentence. These
missing words are usually clear from CONTEXT. Very often
they can be inferred from the PARALLEL structure.

Here is a simple example. Gn37-32:33 states
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They (the brothers) said: We have found this
Recognize it!
IS IT your son's coat or not. And he recognized it and said
[IT IS] My son's coat
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What Jacob actually said as recorded in the Bible is
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MY SON'S COAT
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However we interpret this elliptically as follows
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[IT IS] MY SON'S COAT
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The elliptical part IT IS is placed in brackets
to indicate that
- it is not in the actual Biblical text
- but theoretically belongs in the sentence.
We summarize this by saying that IT IS is an ellipsis.

In passing ELLIPSIS very often has a purpose. Here the
terse broken phrase
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MY SON'S COAT
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without a complete sentence shows a state of
psychological shock.

Here are other examples of ELLIPSIS. In each case we indicate
- the preceding verse or the context of the verse
- the actual text
- the elliptical text placed in brackets.
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VERSE    1st verse or context followed by 2ndVerse with ellipsis
-------- ----------------- -------------------------------------
Gn37-33a IS THIS your son's coat
         [IT IS] My son's coat
Gn47-18a They bought food that yr
         They came in 2nd year[OF FAMINE]
Gn45-17a Come back because of famine
         Fill your wagons [WITH FOOD]
Gn47-06b We SHEPARD SHEEP
         Place them on [SHEEP] that our mine
Gn47-12a --------------------------
         Fed them by [NUMBER OF] children
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LIST095a below presents Biblical verses with Ellipsis.
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ITEM                     DETAIL
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RASHI RULE CLASS:        GRAMMAR
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS      CONSTRUCT
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #9
SEE BELOW                LIST095a
List of Biblical verses  with Ellipsis
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======================== LIST095a ======================================
List of Biblical verses  with Ellipsis
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VERSE    1st SENTENCE/CONTEXT        2nd SENTENCE--ELLIPSIS IN BRACKETS
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Gn37-33a IS THIS your son's coat     [IT IS]*1 My son's coat
Gn47-18a They bought food that yr    They came in 2nd year[OF FAMINE]
Gn45-17a Come back because of famine Fill your wagons [WITH FOOD]
Gn47-06b We SHEPARD SHEEP            Place them on [SHEEP] that our mine
Gn47-12a --------------------------  Fed them by [NUMBER OF] children

NOTES
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*1 The actual Biblical text simply cites Jacob as stating
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   MY SON'S COAT
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   However we understand this as meaning
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   [It is] my son's coat
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   The words [IT IS] is not in the verse but is required
   for understanding it. We therefore call these missing
   but required words, an ELLIPSIS. We indicate the ELLIPSIS
   using brackets.

   Very often ELLIPSIS has a literary purpose. In this case
   the broken phrase MY SON'S COAT indicates psychological
   shock.
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