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VERSE: Nu13-17a

======================= Nu13-17a ===============================

SUCCINCT SUMMARY
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The METONOMY method seeks to obtain meaning
by equating a word or phrase with something RELATED.
For example AMERICA defeated IRAQ really means that
the AMERICAN PEOPLE defeated the IRAQii PEOPLE.

It is common in POETRY to use phrases to indicate
something related. I call this the method of
METONOMIC PHRASES.


EXAMPLE Nu13-17a
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Nu13-17 describes the journey of the spies
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and they went on the south
towards chevron....
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Rashi comments
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Chevron is a burial place (eg Gn23-19:20)
Burial plots are typically the most inferior
land (You dont use good land for burial plots)

So the point is that the spies first encountered
the bad parts of Israel and later they could see
the good parts of Israel

This is common in commerce....you keep the very
good stuff to the end...you try and get bids on
the bad stuff...then you show good stuff and try
and get a higher bid (As it is...Chevron which
is ONLY a burial plot has quite good land)
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Rashi here uses the principle of PHRASE METONOMY:

The verse THEY WENT TO THE SOUTH TO CHEVRON
means THEY WENT TO THE POOR QUALITY LAND FIRST

In other words the SOUTH/CHEVRON is interpreted
in terms of the attributes which are RELATED TO IT
(And naming something by RELATION is called METONOMY)

See LIST871O for a list of METONOMIC POETIC PHRASES
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ITEM                     DETAIL
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RASHI RULE CLASS:        WORD MEANINGS
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS      8 METHODS OF NAMING
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #7
SEE BELOW                LIST871O
List of verses with      Metonomic Phrases(Poetic Hinting)
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======================= LIST871O =================================
List of verses with      Metonomic Phrases(Poetic Hinting)
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VERSE    TEXT OF VERSE               RELATED TO      INDICATES
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Nu13-17a they went to SOUTH/CHEVRON  burial place    poor land*2
Gn49-11c wash clothes in wine        wine abundance  BLESSING
Lv26-26c 10 women cook in one stove  wood drought    CURSE
Lv26-10a consume very old grain      well preserved  BLESSING
Lv26-10b remove old grain for new    grain abundance BLESSING
Gn49-12b white teeth from milk       abundance       BLESSING
Nu11-31c Meat was 2 CUBITS HIGH      ARMS REACH      Accessible*1

NOTES
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*1 Meat could just be grabbed without bending down or exertion
   A punchy description of obese people who want to grab meat
   without doing any work or exercise.

*2 It is common in commerce to show the poor goods first (to
   try and get a good bid from the buyer...then you show him
   the really good material)
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