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      3. RASHI METHOD: GRAMMAR
      BRIEF EXPLANATION: Rashi explains verses using grammar principles, that is, rules which relate reproducable word form to word meaning. Grammatical rules neatly fall into 3 categories
      • (a) the rules governing conjugation of individual words,Biblical roots,
      • (b) the rules governing collections of words,clauses, sentences
      • (c) miscellaneous grammatical, or form-meaning, rules.
      This examples applies to Rashis Gn21-30b
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n5.htm
      Brief Summary: The feminine form of the TESTIMONY is TESTAMENT. A TESTAMENT is a TESTIMONY that is SUBSERVIENT (=Female) to commemoration of some event.

Hebrew is a gender language. Feminine forms of nouns can reflect items that are passively related [=femail] to some dominant [=male] concept. For example, the Hebrew word for testament, Ayin-Daleth-Hey, is the feminine form of the word for testimony, Ayin-Daleth. Here the testament is seen as passively bound and fixed to permanantly testify and commemorate some event.

An example occurs in Gn21-30b, which states And he said, These seven ewe lambs shall you take from my hand, that they may be a testament to me, that I have dug this well. 


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