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We ask the following database query:
What mode - active vs. passive - is used to indicate birth.
The reader is encouraged to perform the query using a standard Biblical Konnkordance or search engine.
This database query yields the list below.
The list justifies the following Rashi inference:
- The active - so and so begat so and so - is the normal style to indicate
genealogy
- The passive - so and so was born to so and so - is used to indicate
emphasis on the time or leadership qualities of the person born.
The list below presents the results of the database query and shows examples.
Verse
| Style
| Verse text
| Emphasis
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Gn41-50a
| Passive
| And unto Joseph was born two sons
| before the years of famine came [Rashi: Implying
that children should not be born in times of famine (abstention).]
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Gn10-21
| Passive
| And to Shem also,was born children
| the father of all the Eberites, [Emphasizes that Shem and Ever
were the major bearers of the monotheistic tradition.]
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Gn10-25
| Passive
| And to Eber was born two sons
| the name of one was Split because during his lifetime the
world split up [at the Tower of Babel.]
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