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VERSE: Nu34-04b

RASHIS COVERED: Nu34-06a Nu34-06b Nu34-04b Gn28-02a Gn28-02b
                Gn46-01a Gn14-10b

==================== Nu34-04b =======================

SUCCINCT SUMMARY
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One of Rashis 6 main tasks is to explain
GRAMMAR the same way modern Hebrew books
explain GRAMMAR. We call this the Rashi GRAMMAR rule.
Rashi had three broad sub-rules in explaining GRAMMAR

(1) A major component of Hebrew GRAMMAR are the rules
governing conjugations of VERBS, or HEBREW ROOTS.
There are 7 grammatical modes with half a dozen
parameters: tense, person, gender, plurality,
connective words...

(2) Another component of GRAMMAR deals with
PREFIXES-SUFFIXES and other letters, or small words,
that  indicate changes in meanings.This PREFIX-SUFFIX
subrule includes the rules governing the rules of
plural, gender, pronouns etc. We are still making
discoveries of PREFIX-SUFFIX rules today.

(3) Finally a more advanced part of GRAMMAR deals
with the rules of entire SENTENCES. The SENTENCE
rules includes the rules governing sentence order,
apposition, and compound sentences


EXAMPLES Nu34-06a
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Nu34-06a states
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The western border:
- It will be the Mediteranean sea & its borders
This will be the western border
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Rashi on the opening phrase THE WESTERN BORDER: states
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This phrase is understood as being in APPOSITION:
That is the verse could be read
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The Mediteranean sea and its
borders are THE WESTERN BORDER
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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LIST075a below summarizes this apposition and
brings in many more examples.

EXAMPLE Nu34-04b
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Verse Nu34-04 states
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And the southern border rolls to MAALAY AKRABIM
and continues TOWARDS Tzin [the actual Hebrew
word used is TzinAH; Tzin is the name of a desert;
to this name is added a TERMINAL HEY: Tzin+HEY=
Tzinah]
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Rashi comments on the TZIN+HEY formation
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TZIN+HEY has the same meaning as LAMED+TZIN.
The prefix LAMED in Hebrew means TOWARDS.
Hence TzinAH means TOWARDS Tzin.
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LIST045a below contains half a dozen Rashis
illustrating this principle. Characteristic
of Rashi, important subrules, are also mentioned.
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ITEM                     DETAIL
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RASHI RULE CLASS:        GRAMMARr
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS:     APPOSITION
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #9
SEE BELOW                LIST075a
List of verses with      Use of APPOSITION
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RASHI SUBRULE CLASS:     TERMINAL HEY
SEE BELOW                LIST045a
List of verses with      Terminal HEY=Prefix LAMED=TO
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======================= LIST045a =================================
List of verses with      Terminal HEY=Prefix LAMED=TO
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VERSE    TERMINAL HEY = TO              Text of Verse (TO, CAPPED)
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Nu34-04b TziNaH = To Tzin               border passes TOWARDS Tzin
Gn28-02a PadenA = to padan              Jacob, go TO Paden Aram
Gn28-02b BaiytA = to the house          Jacob, go TO Laban's house
Gn46-01a BeerA Shava = to beer sheva*1  Jacob came TO Beer Sheva
Gn14-10b HerA = to the mountain         Survivors fled TO mountain

NOTES
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*1 Rashi adds an important subrule on the TERMINAL HEY rule
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   When you have a compound word BEER SHEVA, then the
   terminal Hey is placed on the FIRST word of the pair.
   That is
   - CORRECT: BeerAH Shava
   - INCORRECT: Beer ShavAH
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   Such adding of subrules is characteristic of Rashi.
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==================== LIST075a =============================
List of verses with      Use of APPOSITION
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VERSE    WORDS IN APPOSITION IN VERSE are CAPPED*1
======== ==================================================
Nu34-06a The Mediteranean Sea... is the WESTERN BORDER
Nu04-49a By Gods order were census act & CENSUSES OF GOD*2
Gn19-12b WHO ELSE is with you--CHILDREN IN-LAWS--leave city
Gn14-23a FROM THREAD TO SHOELACE...If I take ANYTHING
Ex23-33a Dont intermarry lest you SIN--ie SERVE OTHER GODS
Isa63-7  I will remember GODS GRACE--ie HIS PRAISES
Ps147-9  God gives ANIMALS food-(even) to RAVENS that pray
Gn01-29a I God give to MAN plant food---& to the ANIMALS
Lv06-13a This is the INAUGURATION SACRIFICE-DAILY MNCH

NOTES
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*1 So the verse should be read with all the CAPPED words
   brought together. For example Gn14-23a is UNDERSTOOD as
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   If I take ANYTHING---FROM THREAD TO SHOELACE-from you
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*2 So the Biblical text
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   he CENSUSED them
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   refers to the ACT of census.

   The Biblical text
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   CENSUSES OF GOD TO MOSES
   ----------------------
   would refer to the CENSUS categories, Age 30-50, that
   God ordered Moses.
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