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VERSE: Lv14-14a

RASHIS COVERED: Lv14-14a Lv14-14b

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VERY BRIEF SUMMARY
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One of Rashis 6 main goals is to explain the
meaning of words the same way a dictionary
explains the meaning of words.

One vehicle of word meaning presented by Rashi
is the two letter root theory. As everyone
know the Hebrew language is based on 3 letter
roots which are CONJUGATED in various ways.

For example the root S-M-R can mean,
I WATCHED (ShMaRTi), YOU WILL WATCH (TiShMoR)
etc based on conjugation.

In addition to the 3 letter theory Rashi believed
in the 2 Letter root theory--that is 3 letter
roots govern GRAMMATICAL conjugation while
2 letter roots govern MEANING. Every 3 letter
root has a meaning that is determined by the
meanings of the 1 and 2 letter roots comprising
the root.

For example: The letter NUN denotes INTENSITY,
ALOT, or INTRINSICness. The list below illustrates
this.

EXAMPLE
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- Tauv-Caph means INSIDE. Tauv-NUN-Caph therefore
  means ALOT INSIDE--in fact Tauv-NUN-Caph denotes
  the soft inside of the ear.

EXAMPLE
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- BO denotes INSIDE. Beth-Hey-NUN means
  INTRINSIC to INSIDENESS. In fact, the Bo-Hen
  denotes the THUMB the organ that enables
  one to hold an object (The thumb opposes the
  other fingers and enables held objects to
  be inside the fist)
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ITEM                     DETAIL
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RASHI RULE CLASS:        WORD MEANING
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS:     2 Letter semantic roots
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #7
SEE BELOW                LIST910a
ROOTS illustrating       NUN=alot,intrinsic
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================ LIST910a ===========================

Rashi believed in 3 letter conjugation roots
and 2 letter meaning roots. That is, Rashi
believed that each root is conjugated
according to the rules of 3 letter roots.

But Rashi supplemented this with the belief
that each root can be explained by ascribing
meaning to individual letters and seeing
the 3 letter roots meaning as emanating from
its letters.

A simple example is that Nun-Beth(HOLLOW)
means CHILD*1 OF (NUN) INSIDE(Beth). Other
examples where NUN means CHILD=POSSESSED are
presented below.

In the list below the English translation
is CAPPED while the Hebrew is LOWERCASE
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ROOT          MEANS   NUN MEANS END ROOT MEANS
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Nun-Beth      HOLLOW  CHILD OF  beth     INSIDE
Nun-Zayin-Kuf DAMAGE  CHILD OF  z-k      SPARKS
Nun-Mem-Resh  LEOPARD CHILD OF  m-r      BRAZENNESS
Nun-Tzde-Lamd SAVE    CHILD OF  z-l      SHADE
Nun-Kuph-Mem  REVENGE CHILD OF  k-m      STANDING UP
Tauv-NUN-Caph Earlobe CHILD OF  T-Ch     INSIDE
Beth-Hey-NUN  Thumb   CHILD OF  Beth     INSIDE*2

NOTES
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*1 Throughout the Bible if you want to state that
   someone was KNOWN for something then you
   state that the person was the CHILD OF it.
   eg RIF RAFS are called CHILDS OF NO-NAME

*2 Functionally, the THUMB opposes other fingers
   and enables humans to grasp objects. Hence
   the THUMB enables things to be held INSIDE
   ones hand
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