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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 Nu21-06a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/nu21-06a.htm
      Brief Summary: Hebrew words can be named by their FEEL. A snake BURN feels like a BURN.

    Today we explore the figures-of-speech method. The figure-of-speech method uses literary techniques, figures of speech, common to all languages, to explain Biblical meaning. One such figure of speech method is what I have called the the triple FFF method: Form-Function-Feel. According to the the triple FFF method one can name something by
  • its Form - for example, the pentagon is named for its pentagonal form;
  • its Function - for example, the United Nations is name for its intended purpose, to unite nations
  • its feel - for example, a hardship is named by how it feels.

There are about half a dozen examples of naming by feel in the rest of the Bible in Numbers and Deuteronomy. Today we start slowly. Rashi explains that a snake bite is called a burn because of the burning feeling associated with it. English has a similar etymology - its refers to certain wounds as burns. Over the next few months we will further develop this set of examples into a full table.

Verse Nu21-06 illustrates this usage: And HaShem sent burning serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 


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