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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 example applies to Rashis Ex39-03a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/nu17-03b.htm

    Verse Ex39-03 states And they skied the gold into thin plates, and cut it into threads, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skilful workman. Rashi explains the underlined word skied: To sky means to make flat like a sky and to beat thin. Here Rashi uses the word meaning principle of naming by form. Some other common examples of naming by form in English are
  • To surf the net (alot of bumpy to and from motion.)
  • To brainstorm (To bombard with many little droplets of ideas)
  • To skim a book (to quickly jump on the surface without going inside)
  • To run a machine (to make the machine do alot of quick motions) 


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