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      3. RASHI METHOD: GRAMMAR
      BRIEF EXPLANATION: Rashi explains verses using grammar principles, that is, rules which relate reproducable word form to word meaning. Grammatical rules neatly fall into 3 categories
      • (a) the rules governing conjugation of individual words,Biblical roots,
      • (b) the rules governing collections of words,clauses, sentences
      • (c) miscellaneous grammatical, or form-meaning, rules.
      This examples applies to Rashis Dt07-02a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n3.htm
      Brief Summary: DON'T GRACE THE NON-JEW - Don't acknowledge their GRACEFULLNESS

    Biblical Hebrew has a variety of techniques by which to transform verbs into nouns: The following examples are illustrative:
  • To flower means to create a flower
  • To dust means to remove the dust
  • To hammer means to use a hammer in its traditional manner of usage

Based on this list Rashi derives a verb to grace from the adjective Grace. To grace someone would mean to acknowledge / notice someone's gracefullness.

Hence Rashi translates verse Dt07-02 discussing the requirement of destruction of the 7 nations without giving them second chances: and when HaShem thy G-d shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, thou shall not grace them [Rashi: acknowledge the grace of their achievements] 


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