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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 Nu04-13a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n20.htm
      Brief Summary: Daleth-Shin-Nun means a) ash and also b) to ash - to remove the ash.

Todays Rashi rule combines the grammar and meaning method. Consequently we repeat this explanation in both rule 2,meaning and rule 3, grammar.

    Although most conjugation rules refer to the conjugation of verbs, there are also conjugation rules for transfroming nouns into verbs. We list several common methods for transforming nouns into verbs:
  • create the noun: e.g. to flower
  • remove the noun: e.g. to dust
  • use the noun: e.g. to hammer
  • the verb(activity) done to this noun: e.g. Dt21-04b: neck the calf, in other words kill it with a blow to the neck

We can apply the above Rashi rule to verse Nu04-13 which states And they shall ash the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it; Here we have embedded the Rashi comment in the translation of the verse. The Rashi comment focues on transforming the noun ash into the verb to ash which means to remove ash. Notice how this transformation - the noun ash transforms to the verb to ash - is consistent with a similar transformation in English, to dust from dust. Consequently, this Rashi rule combines the grammar (transforming a noun into a verb) and meaning (the meaning of a coined term) methods. 


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