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VERSE: Ex29-01a

RULE:
====
Hebrew grammar is based on 3 letter grammatical roots consisting
of 3 Hebrew letters. These roots can be conjugated in various
forms. For example >I WATCHED< vs >YOU WILL WATCH HER< vs
>WATCH THEM< all have conjugation rules from the three letter
Hebrew root-->SMR<--meaning >WATCH. These conjugation rules
are presented in popular Hebrew Books and courses.

The SINGLE MASCULINE COMMAND FORM uses a conjugation rule
that adds the punctuation >SHVA< followed by >PATACH<.
Here is a LIST of examples

{LIST}
The conjugation rule for the SINGLE MASCULINE COMMAND FORM
uses >SHVA-PATACH< This list comes from Al Silbermans
Grammatical Form Konkordance, SEFER AMAYLIM BATORAH*1
==========================================================
VERB       TEXT WITH ILLUSTRATIVE MEANING        VERSE
====       ==============================        =====
BeCHaR     PICK men for the war                  Ex17-09
Be TaCH    HAVE FAITH in God                     Ps37-03
Be RaCH    RUN to my brother Laban               Gn27-43
Ge AaL     REDEEM my portion                     Ru04-06
SheAaL     ASK about Human history               Dt04-32
Le AaT     BE GENTLE with the lad Absalom        2Sam18-05*2

NOTES
=====
*1 I have only given 6 examples.SEFER AMAYLIM BATORAH gives
   27 verbs in this form. There are apparently 28 examples.

*2 This verb entry was absent from the LIST. See the lively
   discussion between me and the author in v9-3-8a. This is
   an example of a human (me) beating a computer.
{END OF LIST}


RULE
====
However besides the above CONJUGATION RULE for SINGLE
MASCULINE COMMANDS there is an alternative conjugation
form using only the last 2 letters of the root and
the PATACH.

This 2nd alternative form is presented below

{LIST}
The alternate conjugation form for SINGLE MASCULINE COMMAND:
The first letter of the verb is dropped while the
remaining two letters are punctuated with a PATACH.
There are only 5 examples of this in the Bible--this
list comes from the Grammatical Form Konkordance of
Al Silberman
========================================================
VERB       TEXT OF VERSE                       VERSE
====       =============================       =====
GaA*1      God, TOUCH the mountains & destroy  Ps144-05
GaSh*1     COME NEAR, & kill him               2Sam1-15
KaCh*1     TAKE from every food                Gn06-21
TsaK*1     POUR for them and eat               2Ki04-41
ShaL*1     REMOVE your shoes from your feet    Ex03-05

NOTES
=====
*1 All but one of these verbs come from roots beginning with
   the WEAK letter >NUN< (In other words when a Hebrew
   root begins with a >NUN< it is permissable to
   drop the letter)

   Only one of these examples---KACH--comes from a
   root beginning with a >LAMED<.

   It is tempting to conjecture that a new root
   -- >NUN KUF CHET< -- exists but we find no other
   examples of it. It would be foolish to make this
   root up for only this one verse
{END OF LIST}


APPLICATION: Ex29-01
============
Now we understand Rashi. On the one hand
---the CONJUGATION RULE for COMMAND is SHVA-PATACH

---in rare cases we drop the first letter and
   use a PATACH(But only if the first letter of the
   root is a NUN)

---However in only one case of a verb beginning with
   a >LAMED< do we use the >DROP THE FIRST LETTER<
   form--and that is the root >LKCH< which occurs
   in Gn06-21 using the >DROP-THE-FIRST-LETTER FORM<
   while in Ex29-01 it occurs in the >FULL FORM<

Hence we see Rashis simplicity and elegance. Rashi
alerted us to the grammatical rule on this verse
because of how rare its application here would be.

In passing there are only 4 Hebrew roots beginning
with a >LAMED< that have a SINGULAR COMMAND
MASCULINE FORM. They are presented below


{LIST}
The 4 verbs that begin with LAMED that use a SINGULAR
COMMAND MASCULINE FORM. Results were obtained use
Al Silbermans Grammatical Form Konkordance supplemented
by human knowledge. Only one of these roots uses the
DROP THE FIRST LETTER FORM
=======================================================
ROOT   VERSE    COMMAND FORM      TEXT
====   =====    ============      =====================
LeVaSh 1K22-30  LeVaSh            DRESS your (battle)clothes
LeChaM Ps35-01  LeChaM            FIGHT my battles
LeKaCh Gn06-21    KaCh            TAKE from every food*1
LeAaT  2S18-05  LeAaT             BE GENTLE on Abshalom*2

NOTES
=====
*1 The COMMAND FORM, >LeKaCh<, also occurs (Ex29-01)
*2 This entry is missing from SEFER AMAYLIM BATORAH
{END OF LIST}
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