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Today anyone wanting to learn Hebrew can take a course
and learn Biblical Hebrew grammar. But in Rashi's time
Grammar was just beginning. One of Rashi's major tasks
was to teach basic Hebrew Grammar the same way
we find in modern Hebrew textbooks. Modern Hebrew Grammar deals with such issues as conjugation of
verbs, indication of possessive pronouns, gender etc. Today's
example illustrates this.
Verse
Gn31-40
discussing
Jacob's complaint that he worked hard for Laban
but was double-crossed
states
Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
Rashi explains
The Hebrew word
Shin-Nun-Hay
means sleep.
To indicate my sleep we replace the terminal Hey with a terminal
Tauv-Yud, making the word Shin-Nun-Tauv-Yud.
Other examples of this replace hey
with terminal tauv-yud
rule are presented in the list below (Note: In the last
example we replace a terminal alpeh with a terminal
tauv-yud.:
- Resh-Ayin-Yud-Hey means female friend.
Resh-Ayin-Yud-Tauv-Yud means my girlfriend.
- Yud-Vav-Nun-Hey means dove.
Yud-Vav-Nun-Tauv-Yud means my dove.
- Aleph-Mem-Hey means handmaid.
Aleph-Mem-Tauv-Yud means my handmaid.
- Shin-Nun-Hey means sleep.
Shin-Nun-Tauv-Yud means my sleep.
- Cheth-Tet-Alep means sin.
Cheth-Tet-Alelp-Tauv-Yud means my sin.
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