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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 Gn17-20a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w34n17.htm
      Brief Summary: N-S-A = Lifted - Have a high - Marriage:Cloud:Prince:Prayer

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.

    The Hebrew root Nun-Sin-Aleph means to lift. From this fundamental meaning we derive a number of words with a fundamental idea of being high or receiving a high.
  • NaSih, cloud
  • NaSih, prince - high official
  • LiSaH, to marry (either to become high or obtain a new social height and position)
  • LiSaH, to pray (to lift one's heart upwards).

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Note that the Hebrew idioms above are echoed in English. For example in English also we speak about lifting one's heart upwards. 


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