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VERSE: Lv16-04c

RASHIS COVERED: Lv16-04c


==========RASHIS USE OF SEMANTIC & GRAMMATIC ROOTS==============

 Most people are aware that both Biblical and Modern Hebrew
 is built on 3 letter roots. The rules governing the conjugation
 of 3 letter roots are known as grammatical rules. Rashi fully
 believed in the 3 letter root theory.

 Rashi also believed that the MEANING of 3 letter roots can be
 derived by using SEMANTIC CONJUGATION RULES which break the
 3 letter root into a 2 letter root and a single letter with
 meaning.

 The LIST below shows how the 2nd root letter of NUN means LIKE,
 in the semantic conjugation rules

 For example
 * the Hebrew root Chet-Nun-Pay means to FLATTER.
 The 1st and 3rd letter of this root spells Chet-Pay
 * The Hebrew root Chet-Pay means to COVER
 * And we just said that the letter NUN means LIKE

 Putting this all together we obtain that
 FLATTERY = LIKE COVERING (in other words a COVER UP)
 Similar examples are presented in the LIST below

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ROOT   MEANS            = NUN NUN=      REST OF ROOT WHICH MEANS
====== ================ = === ========  ============ ===========
AaNaPh (anger)          = Nun (like)    APh          (anger)*2
AaNaSh (Person)         = Nun (like)    ISh          (Person)*2
ChaNaF (Flatter)        = Nun (like a)  ChF          (Cover up)
AaNaCh (we)             = Nun (like)    ACh          (Brothers)
ZaNaK  (Leap)           = Nun (like a)  ZeeK         (Spark)
KaNaF  (Wing)           = Nun (Like a)  CaF          (hand)
TzANaF (Put on clothes) = Nun (like an) TzuF         (Overlay)*3
GaNaV  (Thief)          = Nun (like)    GaV          (Clefts)*4
GaNaZ  (Hide)           = Nun (like)    GayZ         (Shearings*4

NOTES
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*1 The above rule is one of many POSSIBLE RULES but not a
necesary rule. That is, not all roots whose 2nd letters
are Nun follow this rule. For example
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ChiNaM (Free) = MEM (What) ChayN (Grace)
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In this example we break up the root ChiNaM by its 3rd letter
not by its 2nd letter: CHINAM = M + CHIN.


*2 In these examples the root with and without the NUN has
   the same meaning

*3 Rashi simply says that TzaNaF means to PUT TO REST.

   But our point is that the Hebrew Tzanaf doesnt just mean
   to PUT TO REST but more specifically it means to OVERLAY
   as in putting on a turban or putting on clothes.

   Thus by using the two letter roots we gain more insight
   into both the meaning and believability of Rashi.

*4 That is a thief vs a robber enters steathily sort of like
   thru clefts and holes. I should mention that the other
   meanings of the Hebrew GaV also have a connotation of
   pits/clefts/bumpy surface: e.g. Cheese, mountains,
   human back (which looks cleft like because of the vertebrae)

*5 This root is usually used to denote hiding treasures which
   the Hebrew equates with a procedure that is sort of like
   covering with shearings

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