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• Yitro and Bilam/0
  ...4.</fn> These two verses are the only occurrences of the verb forms of the root .י.ע.ץ in the Torah.<fn>The noun form appears once in Devarim 32:28. Ac
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• Giving One's Seed to Molekh/1/en
  ...term "יִשְׂרְפוּ", clarifying that the children were actually burned. The root "שרף", though, is absent from&#160;<a href="Vayikra18-1-319-24" data-aht
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• Shabbat Table Topics – Parashat Vayigash/0/en
  <li>What are the root causes of economic anti-Semitism?&#160; How does it compare to religious an
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• Ephod – Appearance/2
  ...f&#160; "אֵפֹד"</b> – Rashi is not explicit, but appears to understand the root "אפד" to mean to adorn or decorate, writing, "והאפוד שם תכשי <point><b>Meaning of "אֵפֹד"</b> – R. Hirsch asserts that the root "אפד" means to belt.<fn>See also R"Y Bekhor Shor who also understands th
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• The Israelite Camp in Art/0
  ...ut R. David Kimchi</a></multilink> on Yehoshua 8:15.</fn> suggest that the root דבר refers to pasture or grazing land. The issue also relates to a large
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• Test/2/en
  ...are the only Biblical occurrences of the verb אבק.</fn> is related to the root "חבק"&#8206;<fn>Shadal notes that the Samaritan text reads "ויחבק". ...ggle.</fn> Ramban raises the possibility that it is related instead to the root חבק.&#8206;<fn>See <a href="BavliChulin91a_2" data-aht="source">Bavli Ch
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• Test/2/he
  ...are the only Biblical occurrences of the verb אבק.</fn> is related to the root "חבק"&#8206;<fn>Shadal notes that the Samaritan text reads "ויחבק". ...ggle.</fn> Ramban raises the possibility that it is related instead to the root חבק.&#8206;<fn>See <a href="BavliChulin91a_2" data-aht="source">Bavli Ch
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• Wrestling With Angels and Men/2
  ...are the only Biblical occurrences of the verb אבק.</fn> is related to the root "חבק"&#8206;<fn>Shadal notes that the Samaritan text reads "ויחבק". ...ggle.</fn> Ramban raises the possibility that it is related instead to the root חבק.&#8206;<fn>See <a href="BavliChulin91a_2" data-aht="source">Bavli Ch
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• Yerovam's Rebellion/2
  ...</b> – According to the Bavli, Rashi, and R"Y Kara the word comes from the root "מלא" and refers to the filling in of the holes that David had left in t ...ts that this was a labor corvee, rather than a monetary tax.&#160; See the root's usage in Shemot 1:11 and 5:4-5, and in Nechemiah 4:11.</fn></point>
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• Haggadah:Yachatz/1
  ...atter custom, though, is said to be done on the eve of Pesach.</fn> As the root "חטף" means to "snatch," it would seem to relate to a grabbing of the ma
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 49/0
  ...://mg.alhatorah.org/Concordance/7852">concordance</a> highlights that this root appears only twice more in Torah, once in reference to Esav's relationship
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• Yaakov's Parting Words to Shimon and Levi/2
  ...lling" (מגורותיהם) or "origins".&#160; As evidence, Ibn Ezra points to the root's usage in the phrase "מְכֹרֹתַיִךְ וּמֹלְדֹתַיִך� ...ם".&#160; He suggests that the word means "negotiations" (perhaps from the root "מכר," to sell) and that Yaakov is saying that the brothers' covenant an
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 4/0
  .../mg.alhatorah.org/Concordance/6298"> concordance</a> demonstrates that the root "פגש" appears only four times in Torah, twice in each of these stories,
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• Seeing Hashem/1
  ...&#160; Under what circumstances will this lead to death? Finally, does the root "ראה" mean the same thing in all of these verses, or should it be unders
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• Yaakov's Retrospective and Yosef's Double Portion/2
  ...anel suggest that the word "מַפְרְךָ" alluded to Ephraim due to the shared root, while the word "וְהִרְבִּיתִךָ" hinted to the future conques ...milarity to the name Ephraim is less striking.</fn> whose name shares that root.<fn>Both Or HaChayyim and Abarbanel point this out, though neither reads th
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• Arei Miklat – Cities of Refuge or Exile/2
  ...ho asserts that the paired words are opposites and that the meaning of the root there might be connected to ערי מקלט as well.] In Arabic, the word "
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• Grammar:Number/0
  ...ן יחיד אצל לשון רבים" and see below that many say this with regards to the root "היה" specifically.</fn> and do not attempt to explain the various cases ...</fn> note that the phenomenon is especially prevalent with regards to the root "היה".</li>
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• Ahavat Hashem/2
  ...understanding of love is supported by the many Biblical occurrences of the root in the context of interpersonal relationships and emotional attachment.<fn> ...al's definition.<fn>See above notes for other examples in Tanakh where the root "אהב" is used in this fashion.</fn></point>
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• Shomerim/2
  ...of some sort caused by brigands,<fn>Note that in all other cases where the root "שבה" is found in Tanakh, the object is taken captive, not harmed and th
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• Ancient Near Eastern Index – Parashat Vaera/0
  ...s</a>, by J. Gwyn Grifiths, for analysis of suggestions about the Egyptian root of the name Moshe and the weaknesses of various theories.&#160;</li>
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• Eliyahu's Death/1/en
  <p>Is the root "לקח" simply euphemistic language for death, or are the people suggestin
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• Purpose of the Captive Woman Protocol/2
  ...im her nails. This understanding is supported by the parallel usage of the root "עשה" in <a href="ShemuelII19-25" data-aht="source">Shemuel II 19:25</a> ...hbam</a>, that this refers to the initial act of marital relations.<fn>The root is understood to refer to conjugal pleasure as in the verse, "שְׁאֵר�
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• Hagar – How Many Pregnancies/5
  ...result of this pregnancy." There are some grammarians who believe that the root of the word here is similar to a four-lettered verb.
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• Shekhem and Dinah – Amnon and Tamar/0
  ..."color: #008000;"><b>Rape</b> </span>– Though one would expect to find the root "ענה" in a story of rape, the combined roots of "שכב" and "ענה" ap
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• Rachel and Channah/0
  ...>Hashem remembering</b> – These are the only two women in Tanakh where the root "זכר" is used to express Hashem's remembering of them.<fn>In the other c
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• Literary Devices – Shemot 14/0
  ...e times each in Shemot 14 as the story culminates.&#160; Here, though, the root "כבד"&#160; describe how Hashem will be honored through the miracle.&#16
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• Kayin and Yonah/0
  <li>Though the root "<span style="color: #ff0000;">חרה</span>" appears many times in Tanakh,
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• Mordechai's Refusal to Bow/2
  ...a more extensive list.</fn> rather than gods.<fn>He even suggests that the root "כרע" is just a variation of "כנע".</fn> He does not, though, address ...phet of God.&#160; See, though, the Hoil Moshe above who suggests that the root כרע simply means submission and thus if one expands the pool of occurren
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• Banishment of Hagar and Yishmael/2
  ...in <a href="Bereshit39-17" data-aht="source">Bereshit 39:17</a>, where the root "צחק" suggests sexual activity.</fn></li> ...mot6-1" data-aht="source">Shemot 6:1</a> where the word is parallel to the root "שלח" and both refer to Paroh's freeing of the Nation of Israel.&#160; S
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• Sin of the Golden Calf in Shemot and Devarim/0
  ...The verb appears only twice more in the entire book.]&#160; Similarly, the root "מרה" appears three times in the unit (out of only eight times in all of
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• Achashverosh's Shock and Fury/2
  ...207;לְאַבְּדָם&#8206;",<fn>There are no clear examples in Tanakh where the root "אבד" refers to enslavement, but R"Y Grossman (see above note) attempts ...ְּאֶרֶץ אַשּׁוּר"&#8206;<fn>See Yeshayahu 27:13.</fn> as evidence that the root "אבד" can refer to exile and he thereby suggests that Haman told the kin
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• Sefer Yonah and the Sin of the Calf/0
  ...s in Tanakh, but in only Shemot and Yonah is the phrase accompanied by the root "נחם".</li>
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• Tanakh and the Ancient Near East Index – Parashat Shemot/0
  ...s</a>, by J. Gwyn Grifiths, for analysis of suggestions about the Egyptian root of the name Moshe and the weaknesses of various theories.&#160;</li>
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Bemidbar 11/0
  ...(11:25, 12:5), Hashem is angry (11:10, 12:9), there is repeated use of the root “&#8206;&#8207;אסף” and there mention of imprisonment and banishment
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• Deconstructing Migdal Bavel/2/en
  <point><b>"יָזְמוּ"</b> – The root of this word might be either זמם which in Biblical Hebrew frequently car ...source">Bereshit 10</a> of the branching out of the nations, with the same root נפץ (scatter) appearing in both chapters. While Chapter 10 merely noted
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• Yaakov's Blessing of Yosef/2
  ...ce of strength and his arms as being mighty ("וַיָּפֹזּוּ")&#8206;.<fn>The root פזז also appears in <a href="ShemuelII6-14-16" data-aht="source">Shemuel ...ggests that the root כרכר&#160; relates to movement of the legs, while the root פזז relates to movement of the arms.</fn> and explains that despite the
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• Revelation to the Elders at Sinai/2
  ...both the roots "אצל" and "זקן", recalling our episode in Shemot 24.<fn>The root "אצל" as a noun or verb appears only 7 times in all of Tanakh, three of ...re so called because Hashem's spirit was set upon them. Alternatively, the root is related to the Arabic <i>'asil</i>, meaning "noble" or "of known stock".
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• Choice of Yerushalayim/2
  ...ssibility that it stems from the root "צין" which is related to the Arabic root "צון", meaning to watch or guard. According to such a derivation the nam
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 7-11/0
  <li>The root "<a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/Concordance/8317">שרץ</a>" appears in
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• Miryam's Critique of Moshe in Art/0
  ...d her as an "other", ripe for ridicule?<fn>This, of course, relates to the root cause of Miryam and Aharon's slander.&#160; Was it at all connected to the
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Shemot 12/0
  ...tps://mg.alhatorah.org/Concordance/2649">חפזון</a>" and the related verbal root "<a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/Concordance/2648">חפז</a>".&#160; Whi
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• Hagar Flees in Art/5
  ...result of this pregnancy." There are some grammarians who believe that the root of the word here is similar to a four-lettered verb.</text>
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• Reparations and Despoiling Egypt/2/en
  <p>According to this approach, the root <a href="Dictionary:שאל" data-aht="page">שאל</a> in this story means ...oint><b>"וַיְנַצְּלוּ" / "וְנִצַּלְתֶּם"</b> – R. Hirsch explains that the root means to remove from one's self,<fn>Cf. Ibn Janach s.v. נצל.</fn> and th
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• Literary Devices – Bereshit 1/0
  ...n></b>" (create) appear in the unit 10 and 6 times respectively, it is the root "<b><span style="color: #339966;">היה</span></b>" (to be) that is most p
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• Realia:Stones of the Choshen/0
  ...ociation, pointing out that the the "נ" of "נפך" appears to be part of the root. See, though, R"Y Yankelewitz (ibid) who attempts to bring textual support ...in ancient times.&#160; Alternatively, the word might be connected to the root "הלל", meaning to shine, which might point specifically to a clear varie
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• Stopping of the Sun at Givon/2
  ...parallel to the verb "stand".&#160; Ibn Balaam, instead, suggests that the root really means to be quiet, but has the secondary connotation of standing sti
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• Dictionary:Cognates and Loanwords/0
  ...there.</fn> have suggested that it comes from the root ברה&#8206;<fn>This root refers to eating, as in <a href="ShemuelII13-5" data-aht="source">Shemuel I ...sentence, "And his gaze upon me was love / loving."<fn>See R. Gordis, “The Root dgl in the Song of Songs,” JBL 88 [1969]: 203-204.</fn></li>
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• Yaakov's Dream in Art/0/en
  ...pax legomenon, appearing only in this story. It is likely derived from the root סלל (to lift or elevate), and it can thus sustain a number of meanings i
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• Eliyahu and Yonah/0
  ...ת."&#8206;<fn>The meaning of the phrase is debated by commentators. As the root "חרש" relates to being silent or deaf, here it could mean either a deafe
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• Purpose of the Yehuda and Tamar Story/2
  ...Yaakov Mecklenburg</a></multilink> suggests that Shelah is related to the root שלה which means to mislead, and that it is indicative of Yehuda's later ...n, altruistically offering himself in Binyamin's stead. Interestingly, the root ערב appears in only two stories in Torah - the pledge of our chapter and
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• Yehuda's Blessing – Eternal Kingship/2
  ...t><b>"מְחֹקֵק"</b> – Although all of these exegetes relate the word to the root חקק and חֹק, they differ regarding to whom this phrase refers: ...a son or descendant. Sforno suggests that "שִׁילֹה" is related both to the root שול and the word שלום and thus refers to the final era of peace (i.e
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• Literary Devices – Shemot 32/0
  ...the sounds "ב/פרע" throughout the chapter, all related to or recalling the root "רע".&#8206;<fn>The words are not all etymologically connected and stem f
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• MiMachorat HaShabbat/2
  ...cognate rather than simply use a date.&#160; Y. Elitzur suggests that the root "שבת" serves as a guiding word throughout this unit of Vayikra and as su ...ten, even within one verse, the text might play with words, using the same root for different understandings.<fn>Amongst R. Saadia's many examples, see Vay
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• The Tree of Knowledge/2/en
  ...deration at the forefront, concluding from context and other usages of the root "ידע", that here it refers not to knowledge but to sexual desire. His ap ...oot "דעת"</b> – These sources point to the many places in Tanakh where the root ידע connotes sexual relations<fn>For a few of many examples, see <a href
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• Literary Devices – Shemot 2/0
  ...the second half, marking Moshe's transition from child to adult.&#160; The root "בת" runs throughout, perhaps highlighting the important role played by w
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• Dictionary:לאה/5
  <h3 xml:lang="EN">Machberet Menachem Root ל.א.</h3>
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• Dictionary:תְּלָאָה/5
  <h3 xml:lang="EN">Machberet Menachem Root ל.א.</h3>
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• The Tree of Knowledge/2/he
  ...deration at the forefront, concluding from context and other usages of the root "ידע", that here it refers not to knowledge but to sexual desire. His ap ...oot "דעת"</b> – These sources point to the many places in Tanakh where the root ידע connotes sexual relations<fn>For a few of many examples, see <a href
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• בני הא־להים and בנות האדם/2/en
  ...abduction or taking by force (and not just marriage).<fn>Verses where the root might take this connotation include Bereshit 12:15 (the taking of Sarai to ...because others have the sensation that they will fall upon them (from the root נפל)&#8206;.<fn>Cf. Ibn Ezra who asserts that they are so called since f
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• Why is the Goat Sent to Azazel/2
  ...ּאֵל" in Yehoshua 18:27.</fn> He suggests that the word is formed from the root עוז&#8206;,<fn>Cf. the second opinion in <multilink><a href="BavliYoma67 ...tra letter but the entire ending of the word that is unrelated to the main root. N. Tur-Sinai, in "עזאזל", Eretz Israel 1 (1951): 77-80 attempts to su
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• בני הא־להים and בנות האדם/2/he
  ...abduction or taking by force (and not just marriage).<fn>Verses where the root might take this connotation include Bereshit 12:15 (the taking of Sarai to ...because others have the sensation that they will fall upon them (from the root נפל)&#8206;.<fn>Cf. Ibn Ezra who asserts that they are so called since f
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• The Story of the Spies in Bemidbar and Devarim/2
  ...whole.</fn> of each chapter highlights their differing emphases.&#160; The root "תור" appears 12 times in Sefer Bemidbar (and only once in Devarim), mak
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• Lot's Wife and Her Fate/2
  ...nted officer, not an inanimate figure.</fn> and it could be related to the root יצב which means to stand.</point>
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• Purpose of the Trumpet Blowing/2
  ...e for gathering.&#160; The word "תרועה", on the other hand, comes from the root "רעע", meaning to break, appropriate for movement.</fn></point>
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• Dictionary:Changing Meanings/0
  ...an">About R. David Zvi Hoffmann</a></multilink> asserts that in Torah this root means to restrain.&#160; The holiday immediately following Sukkot and the l ...h, too, it means fist.<fn>R. Hoffmann suggests that it is connected to the root "גרף" which means to gather in the hand. This verb, though, appears only
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• A Portrait of Yishmael/2
  ...in <a href="Bereshit39-17" data-aht="source">Bereshit 39:17</a>, where the root "צחק" suggests sexual behavior.</fn> the three cardinal sins in Judaism.
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• Historical Setting of Tehillim 30/2
  ...e comes up only once more, in Malakhi 3:14.</fn> and crying.<fn>The verbal root "בכה" and the noun "בכי" appear repeatedly throughout the Yosef narra
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• Beit HaMikdash and Beit Shelomo/2
  ...hat the word "מֶחֱזָה", which appears only in these verses, comes from the root "חזה" meaning "to see", leading to the possibility that they were mirror
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• Yeshayahu's Mission in Chapter 6/2
  ...o mean "&#8206;&#8207;&#8206;נכרתי".&#8206;<fn>Rashi and Rid points to the root's usage in Tzefanya 1:11, "כִּי <b>נִדְמָה</b> כׇּל עַם �
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• Structure – Sefer Shemot/0
  <li>The root "נטה" is mentioned sixteen times in the unit.<fn>It appears by every mir ...ortrays man doing Hashem's bidding and Hashem fulfilling His promises. The root <b>עשה</b> appears in each:
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• Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 6-9/0
  ...one can choose the specific form "אנשי" by manually toggling between שורש (root) and צורה (form) and inputting "אנשי" rather than "איש" in that
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• Shemot 3/Text
  ...pt" data-aht="page">וְשָׁאֲלָה</a><a href="Dictionary:שאל" data-aht="page">Root שאל</a><a href="Reparations and Despoiling Egypt" data-aht="page">Repara
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• Permission to Eat Meat/2/en
  ...on of the other, leading to their subservience.&#160; See the usage of the root in <a href="Vayikra25-39-43" data-aht="source">Vayikra 25:43</a>, <a href="
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• Purpose of Akeidat Yitzchak/2/en
  ...of reverence and obedience.<fn>Ralbag is not consistent in explaining the root "נסה" in this manner.&#160; In <a href="Shemot20-16" data-aht="source">S ...ot 17:7</a>, "עַל רִיב בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְעַל נַסֹּתָם אֶת י"י" where the root is connected to weariness and strife.</fn> Since Avraham's interactions wit
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• Yeshayahu's Visions of Mashiach/2
  ...eshayahu includes an element of solace by prophesying that there remains a root underground that will give forth the shoot of Yishai and lead to the coming
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• Giving One's Seed to Molekh/2
  ...נו" (&#8206;"לעבר", to impregnate).<fn>Note that while this meaning of the root עבר is common in rabbinic (and modern) Hebrew, it is only found in one o
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• Permission to Eat Meat/2/he
  ...on of the other, leading to their subservience.&#160; See the usage of the root in <a href="Vayikra25-39-43" data-aht="source">Vayikra 25:43</a>, <a href="
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• Duration of the Egyptian Exile/2
  ...of the Rambam's Sefer HaMitzvot</a><a href="RambanSHM1" data-aht="source">Root 1</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="parshan" ...of the Rambam's Sefer HaMitzvot</a><a href="RambanSHM1" data-aht="source">Root 1</a><a href="R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)" data-aht="parshan"
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• Why Couldn't David Build the Beit HaMikdash/2
  .../b> – Hashem ends his speech to David with a twofold promise, that He will root Israel in security (verse 10) and give David a dynasty (verse 12).&#160; In
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• Yitro's Visit – Purpose and Significance/2/en
  ...was not responsible for the visit itself. This distinction may lie at the root of Rashbam's interpretation of 18:1,10 (see <a href="Two Accounts which Yit
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• Divine Plurals/2
  ...ntion of other beings.<fn>R"Y Bekhor Shor goes further to suggest that the root&#160; "עשה" does not mean to create at all, but rather to fix that which
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• Yaakov's Dream/2
  ...a hapax legomenon, whose meaning is unclear. It might stem from the Hebrew root סלל which relates to a path or ramp. Others relate "סֻלָּם" to the
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• The Manna in Art/5
  ...t by מקלף peeled (flaky), taking מחספס in the sense of, and from a similar root as, <span class="source-link">(<a class="source" title="Bereshit 30:37" dat
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• Purpose of the Service of Vayikra 16/2
  ...פר בעד החטא" or "בעד נפשותיכם" and the like. As such, he suggests that the root is related to the word "כופר" and means redeem. The ceremony serves as
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• Mizmor 24: Ascending God's Mountain/2
  ...),<fn>The two sections are further connected through the repetition of the root "נשא".</fn> highlighting the search of each for the other.</point>
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• The Exodus in Art/5
  ...o stay long enough for the dough to become leavened. <br/>משארתם (from the root שאר "to be left over") denotes the leavings (what was left) of the unlea
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• Haggadah:Ha Lachma Anya/2
  ...60; As support, he points to Rashi Shemot 12:11 who appears to connect the root "פסח" with "חפזון":&#8206; "לפיכך תאכלו אותו בחפז
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• Emancipating the Slaves/2
  ...0; The religious incentive alone would not have been strong enough to take root if it were not for the fact that emancipation also had political and econom
  22 KB (3,374 words) - 02:15, 12 February 2019
• Elisha and the Son of the Shunamite/2
  ...er a son; she feared only that the son might not survive to adulthood. The root "כזב" takes the meaning disappoint rather than lie.</point>
  22 KB (3,224 words) - 13:58, 24 July 2019
• Purpose of the Shulchan and Lechem HaPanim/2
  ...and prevent mold.<fn>According to Rashi the word "יֻסַּךְ" comes from the root סכך, to cover.&#160; Thus, the phrase, "אֲשֶׁר יֻסַּךְ בָ
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• Overview – Sefer Yonah/0
  ..."</b> highlight the theme of Hashem's providence? Explore the usage of the root <b>"טול"</b> in Chapter 1 as well. How does it similarly express this id
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• Grammar:Person/0
  ...tense "תַּמּוּ" (with the extra "נ" marking the missing double "מ" of the root, תמם).<fn>See Ibn Ezra.</fn> The clause would translate as: "The kindnes
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• Yosef, Esther, and Daniel/0
  ...יו וַיְבַקֵּשׁ מִשַּׂר הַסָּרִיסִים אֲשֶׁר לֹא יִתְגָּאָל". The use of the root "גאל" makes it difficult to pinpoint Daniel's precise concern with the r
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• Purpose of the Laws of Hybrids/2
  ...of "כִּלְאָיִם"</b> – Ibn Kaspi suggests that "כִּלְאָיִם" relates to the root&#160; "כלא"&#160; which means to restrain or withhold.&#160; The laws ar
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• Words with Multiple Meanings/5
  ...didst plant it. (10) Thou didst clear a place before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land. (11) The mountains were covered with the shadow of it
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• Navot's Vineyard and Achav's Punishment/2
  ...ary to Hashem's specific rebuke regarding Navot, in which he explained the root of the issue: "לֹא הָיָה כְאַחְאָב אֲשֶׁר הִתְמ
  22 KB (3,395 words) - 04:03, 22 August 2018
• David and Avigayil in Art/0
  ...וִד אֶת חַרְבּוֹ".</fn> while, in tandem, three times the text employs the root "מהר" to describe Avigayil's reaction.<fn>See<a href="ShemuelI25" data-a
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• Ehud's Assassination of Eglon/2
  ...refers to Eglon's excrement, or perhaps to part of his intestines.<fn>The root "פרש" elsewhere in Torah refers to bodily secretions. See, for example,
  21 KB (3,189 words) - 13:43, 24 July 2019
• Gidon's Testing of Hashem/2
  ...ize of the army, Hashem tells Gidon, "וְאֶצְרְפֶנּוּ לְךָ שָׁם".&#160; The root צרף has the connotation of purifying, suggesting that in differentiating
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• Purpose of Shemittah/2
  ...Shemittah year are referred to as a&#160; "Shabbat".<fn>In Vayikra 25, the root "שבת" appears seven times in the context of the Shemittah year.</fn></li
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