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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 Ex28-11a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/gn24-02a.htm

Rashi translates the verse Ex28-11, speaking about the construction of the Priestly garments as follows: The work of an engraver of stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel; thou shalt make them to be inclosed in settings of gold.

Rashi's point here is that the Hebrew word Cheth Resh Shin is punctuated with a Kamatz Patach indicating a construct state: Cheth Resh Shin, [engraver of] Had it been punctuated Kamatz Kamatz we would translate as follows The work of an engraver: [the work of] stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel; thou shalt make them to be inclosed in settings of gold.

In other words the proper translation is engraver of vs engraver. 


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