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VERSE: Gn17-11a

RASHIS COVERED: Gn17-11a Gn17-23b Gn17-24a

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:Immediately after I published Volume 8 Number 4,I
noticed an error which I corrected when I posted this digest on
the web. The redone posting will be reposted in Volume 8 Number 5
In correcting this posting I was aided by LISTS in the book
SEFER AMAYLIM BATORAH, by Al Silberman(As well as my own)


RULE
====
Rashi here simply reviews basic Hebrew Grammar. It is
well known that in Hebrew
---words come from 3 letter roots
---each root can be conjugated to indicate PERSON, TIME,...
---for example  >ShMRTI< means >I watched<;
                >ShMRTA< means >YOU WATCHED<
                >ShMR<   means >HE WATCHED<
---One can purchase books that give conjugation tables for the
   various types of verbs.
---A very good 12 page summary of all grammar rules can be
   found in the back of the >EVEN-SHOSHAN HEBREW< dictionary
   Other popular books are eg 201 Ways to Conjugate Verbs


COMMENT: Rather amusingly we see the >SUPERIORITY< of Rashi over
modern scholars. Modern scholars sometimes erroneously accuse
Rashi of being a two-letter radicalist(believing that roots have
2 letters). Modern scholars believe all roots have 3 letters.
However in this example it is Rashi who asserts that all roots
have 3 letters while Mendelkorn, a modern scholar, erroneously
believes in the 2 letter theory(he acknowledges only 1 3 letter
root whose forms he twists)


EXAMPLE
=======

{LIST}
(Rashi)There are >TWO< Hebrew roots meaning to circumcise.
- >Nun-Mem-Lamed<
- >Mem-Vuv-Lamed<
According to Rashi both these roots have the same
meaning. A list of similar pairs of roots with the
same meaning occurs in footnote 1.

By looking at >THE 3rd GRAMMAR TEMPLATE< (pg 1961) and the
6th GRAMMAR TEMPLATE (pg 1964) in the Hebrew IBN SHOSHAN
we easily see the justification for the following forms
===========================================================
VERSE    TYPE OF CONJUGATION            GRAMMATICAL FORM
======== ============================   ================
Gn17-11a PAST-MALE-PLURAL-ACTIVE   is   >NeMaLTeM<*2
Gn17-24a INFINITIVE-PASSIVE        is   >HiMooL<
Gn17-23b PAST-MALE-SINGULAR-ACTIVE is   >VaYoMaL<*3

NOTES:
======
*1 We present here a table of pairs of Hebrew roots where
   the first root begins with a NUN while the second
   root has a second letter of VUV (NUN-X-Y vs X-Vuv-Y).
   We show how these roots are related in meaning thus
   giving credibility to Rashi

   In this table the Nun-root and the Vuv-root mean the
   same thing
   ============================================================
   N-ROOT       MEANING         VUV-ROOT    MEANING
   ======       =======         ========    ===================
   N-A-R        Curse           N-V-R       Curse
   N-M-L        Circumcise      M-V-L       Circumcise
   N-S-Ch       Fall back       S-V-Ch      Fall Back*a
   N-Sh-L       Falling off     Sh-L-H      Falling off


   In this table the Nun-root and the Vuv-root mean almost
   the same thing (The meanings are SIMILAR but not exactly
   the same)
   ============================================================
   N-ROOT       MEANING         VUV-ROOT    MEANING
   ======       =======         ========    ===================
   N-Z-D        Cooked item     Z-V-D       To Boil
   N-K-M        Revenge         K-V-M*b     Stand up for oneself
   N-Sh-F       Soft winds      S-V-F       Glide
   N-Sh-K       Kiss            Sh-K-K      Passion

   NOTES
   =====
   *a RDK points out that this is only one of the meanings
   He also points out that there might be other interpretations

   *b The root >K-V-M< can mean >STAND UP FOR ONSELF< and hence
   >CORRESPONDS< but does not exactly mean the same thing
   as Revenge. In a similar manner >Nun-Mem-Lamed< and
   >Mem-Vuv-Lamed< may have similar but not exactly the same
   meaning. Rashi however simply points out that they are related


*2 Rashi explains that this form looks like >MALTEM< without
   the >NUN<. This would correspond to the grammatical form
   on page 1964 for the root >Ayin-Vuv-Nun<. Thus Rashi
   explicitly notes that the roots >Ayin-Vuv-Nun< and
   >Nun-Mem-Lamed<.

*3 This form is NOT in the Ibn Shoshan dictionary. It can be
   found in the book Sefer Amaylim Batorah (Author
   ASilber@aol.com) in chart 4996#5. Al brings a list of 12
   roots of which we present the first 5
   =========================================================
   VERSE        ROOT            FORM
   =====        ====            ====
   Nu11-31      G-V-Z           VaYoGoZ
   Gn20-01      G-V-R           VaYoGoR
   Gn17-23      M-V-L           VaYoMoL
   Gn11-28      M-V-Th          VaYoMoS
   Isa6-06      Ayin-V-Ph       VaYoOoF

   Apparently this form only occurs with the prefix VUV that
   reverses past and future(and hence is not in Ibn Shoshan)


COMMENT: Again reviewing Mendelkorn, Root, Mem-Vuv-Lamed we
see that Mendelkorn twists many root forms from their normal
usage. By contrast, Rashi simply acknowledges that there are
two roots.


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