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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 Ex10-22b Ex12-15a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n7.htm
      Brief Summary: Numbers in construct imply groupings: e.g. A TRIPLET OF DAYS, a WEEK OF DAYS.

A familiar function of grammar in all languages is the use of the construct. The construct has a variety of meanings including possession and association. The construct can also dynamically create new meanings.

Rashi interprets numbers in the construct as indicating groups. Thus three days becomes, when the construct is used, a triplet of days. Similarly 7 days becomes, when the construct is used, a sextuplet of days.

Following Rashi we have the translations of the following two verses: Ex10-22b states And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for a triplet of days; Ex12-15a states For a septuplet of days ye shall eat unleavened bread; howbeit the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from I In both cases the use of construct with number is interpreted by Rashi as indicating grouping. 


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