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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 Ex25-07b
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1208.htm
      Brief Summary: FILLER STONES are similar to the English SET STONES - stones that FILL in settings.

When Rashi uses, what we may losely call, the hononym method, Rashi does not explain new meaning but rather shows an underlying unity in disparate meanings. Rashi will frequently do this by showing an underlying unity in the varied meanings of a Biblical root.

In my article Peshat and Derash found on the world wide web at http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rashi.pdf. I advocate enriching the Rashi explanation using a technique of parallel nifty translations in modern English. Today's examples show this.

    The Heberw Biblical root Mem-Lamed-Alpeh has a fundamental meaning of to fill. Hence this Biblical root can mean / refer to
  • to fill
  • a full field [ which appears filled vs empty ]
  • famous [ the honor of the famous person fills the world ]
  • cloth jewels, [ stones which you set and fill-in garment crevices ]

Applying the above translation to Ex25-07 discussing items used in building the temple we obtain Onyx stones, and stones to be set on the breast garment and the breastplate to fill in the garments In providing this English translation notice that we have used the English idiom set a stone which mirrors the Hebrew filling stones since we fill the setting with the stone. 


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