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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 Gn14-02a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1312.htm
      Brief Summary: BERAH = Beth RA = 2 Evils = Bad 1) to God and bad 2) to man

There are 10 Rashi subrules by which meaning is presented. One such rule imparts meaning by etymologies. Etymologies in turn can be derived by breaking up the root into component roots. Such a breaking up does not mean that Rashi did not believe in the triliteral theory (3-letter root theory). As I have explained many times Rashi believed that grammatical conjugation was governed by three letter roots but that semantic conjugation, the explanation of meaning is governed by one and two letter roots. So it did not bother Rashi that he could simultaneously believe in 3 and 2 letter roots.

Verse Gn14-02 mentions King Berah - Beth-Resh-Ayin. Rashi explains the etymology of Berah - Beth-Resh-Ayin as Beth Resh-Ayin or Beth Rah which means 2 evils. Hence the Rashi comment King Berah was known as the 2-evil person: He went out of his way to be evil to both people and God. 


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