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Purpose of Shemittah/2
...Shemittah year are referred to as a  "Shabbat".<fn>In Vayikra 25, the root "שבת" appears seven times in the context of the Shemittah year.</fn></li

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Miracles and Mitzvot at Marah/2/en
.... Eliezer. Ralbag, in contrast, brings support from other instances of the root "נסה".</fn> <multilink><a href="RalbagShemot15P25" data-aht="source">Ral

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Literary Devices – Bereshit 17/5
...aham ibn Ezra explained in the name of the Nagid that the name is from the root shodeid, meaning "victor and prevailer over the hosts of heaven." Th

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Did Shemuel Come Back to Life/2
...Shaul "knew" it was Shemuel even though it was not really him because the root "ידע" can also mean to believe.<fn>In truth, all of these positions woul

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Dictionary:זוד/5
...mselves wicked. Our Rabbis, however, explained it in the same sense as the root which we find in (<a class="source" data-book="En

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Rachel/0
...ta-aht="parshan">About R. Avraham ibn Ezra</a></multilink> understands the root "פתל" to mean to wrestle or struggle, seeing Rachel as explicitly mentio

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Petition of the Two and a Half Tribes/2
...alth.  R"E Samet (ibid) also points out that the text's choice of the root קנה further focuses the reader on the quality of possession. Moshe, in c

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Dictionary:זד – זדון/5
...mselves wicked. Our Rabbis, however, explained it in the same sense as the root which we find in (<a class="source" data-book="En

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The Spies – Where Did They Tour/2
...is claim from the choice of verb, "לָתוּר", which he claims relates to the root "תאר" which mean to surround.</fn> Chizkuni and R. Hirsch posit that the

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Channah's Prayer/2
...emidbar 21:7 and Devarim 9:26. However, see also Shemuel II 7:27 where the root appears in the context of David thanking Hashem for promising him a dynasty

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Index:Resource Articles/0
...the different experience of the Akeidah for Avraham and for Sarah, and the root of the difference.</li> ...s view that many mitzvot are intended to uproot idolatry by addressing the root philosophy of idolatry and how it is a timeless theological threat.</li>

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Yosef/0
...word "נַעַר" elsewhere in Tanakh means servant, they assume that here the root is being used as a verb to mean serve.</fn>  Either way, this soured t

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The Roundabout Route and The Road Not Traveled/2
...e">Miracles and Mitzvot at Marah</a>.]  Cf. Philo who understands the root as to "test" and thus writes:  "He was also desirous, by leading them

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Did Moshe Need Yitro's Advice/2/en
...ke in the Midianite system.</fn> and therefore he attempted to address the root of the problem by proposing that the nation receive a Divine civil law code

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Blessings and Curses – Over Which Commandments/2
...amities, is letting the land lie fallow in the Sabbatical years.  The root "שבת" also appears numerous times in both chapters,<fn>See Vayikra 25:1-

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David and Batsheva/2
...Abarbanel claims that the former is more problematic as it strikes at the root of adherence to all commandments.</point>

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Hardened Hearts/2/en
...then, this approach encounters a measure of difficulty in interpreting the root כבד in "כִּי אֲנִי הִכְבַּדְתִּי אֶת לִבּו

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Reuven and Bilhah/2
...hese sources understand the phrase "יְצוּעִי עָלָה".  Pointing to the root "עלה" in <a href="Tehillim102-25" data-aht="source">Tehillim 102:25</a>,

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Purpose of the Pesach/2
...d Yechezkel 9:6-8 which similarly refer to death or destruction (using the root of שחת) wrought by an angel. The parallel from Yechezkel is particularly ...shiyah in the Mekhilta, R"Y Bekhor Shor suggests that it is related to the root פסע, with the pharyngeals ח and ע being exchanged.</fn> – Jubilees,

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The Flood Story: Undoing and Redoing Creation/0/en
...hese stories.<fn>Interestingly, though, of the twenty-nine mentions of the root רמש in Tanakh, seventeen are found in the Creation and Flood narratives.

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Literary Devices – Shemot 18/0
...לָה</aht-lit>‎),<fn>The Hebrew word for tent (אהל) contains the same root letters א.ה.ל. as the name of God, and Moshe's tent is where the nation

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Purposes of the Egyptian Bondage/2/en
...ptian maidservant, Hagar). While the latter theory may find support in the root ענה which links the stories of Bereshit 15–16 (appearing in 15:13, 16: ...e Netziv draws historical parallels to his own day, and concludes that the root cause of anti-semitism throughout the generations is the Jewish desire to a

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ANE:Treaties in Tanakh and the Ancient Near East/0
...ieces of a slaughtered animal).</fn> have suggested that it comes from the root ברה and relates to the shared meal that would have accompanied the treat

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Moshe's Killing of the Egyptian/2/en
...int>Meaning of "מַכֶּה" and "וַיַּךְ" – According to R. Saadia, the root הכה means to strike in the cases of both the Egyptian and Moshe, and doe

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Meat and Manna/5
...d gathered themselves unto them when they left Egypt (the word is from the root אסף, "to gather") (<a class="source" title="Si ...s 32:4</a>) נהפך לשדי בחרבוני קיץ, where the ל in the word לשד is a root-letter, the meaning being: "my sap (לשדי) is turned by the drought of s

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About:Who We Are/en
...nswer I directed her to the dictionary where on her own she discovered the root, the possible meanings and was able to decipher the nuances of the verse he

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Urim VeTummim/2
...0;<a href="Nechemyah10-35" data-aht="source">Nechemyah 10:35</a> where the root "נפל" is explicitly related to the noun "גורל". See also <a hre

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About:Who We Are/he
...nswer I directed her to the dictionary where on her own she discovered the root, the possible meanings and was able to decipher the nuances of the verse he

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Miryam's Critique of Moshe and his Cushite Marriage/2
...f Miryam and Aharon. They assume that Moshe's prophetic powers were at the root of his feelings of his superiority and this, in turn, caused him to marry a

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Dictionary:שְׁאֵלָה/5
...THEY SHALL REQUEST [OBJECTS OF SILVER AND GOLD]: As an outright gift. [The root ש-א-ל means here to request as an outright gift,] as in the phrase <span

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Commentators:R. Shemuel b. Meir (Rashbam)/0
...7</a>, where Rashi is influenced by the Aramaic while Rashbam looks at the root's usage elsewhere in Tanakh. See how he argues against the proofs from Aram

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Purpose of the Laws of Kashrut/2
...ons in <a href="Vayikra20-7-12" data-aht="source">Vayikra 20</a>.</fn> The root "קדש" means to separate,<fn>See the <multilink><a href="SifraVayikra20-2

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Mystery at the Malon/5
...e, "He strove (vayyasar) with an angel and prevailed," is [from the root s-v-r, ] just like shav, qam and ras that have [third ...waning (רפה) toward evening" (Jud. 19:9), one says וירף, just as from [the root] ק-נ-ה, one says ויקן. אז SHE ADDED, "A BRIDEGROOM OF BLOOD B

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Haftarat Parashat Zachor/5
<text xml:lang="EN">Out of Ephraim came those whose root is in Amalek; after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Out of Machir came

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Why Did Yonah Disobey Hashem/2
...emidbar 24:11</a>. This latter prooftext, however, is somewhat weak as the root ברח in the verse can easily be understood as "run away."</fn> and they s

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Sin and Slaughter of Shekhem/2
...stise them on the moral issues, focusing his attention on their anger, the root cause of the problem.</fn>  According to Ramban, Yaakov is especially

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כי בדבר אשר זדו עליהם – Power and Justice/5
...mselves wicked. Our Rabbis, however, explained it in the same sense as the root which we find in (<a class="source" data-book="En

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Cursing Canaan/5
...(20) ויחל [AND NOAH] BEGAN – (The word may be connected also with a root meaning "profane") He profaned (degraded) himself, for he should have occup ...s in the transitive mode, as for instance Isaiah 41,2 ומלכים ירד, from the root רדה “to rule.” Noach prays that Yaphet’s share of the earth will b

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Dictionary:שאל/5
...THEY SHALL REQUEST [OBJECTS OF SILVER AND GOLD]: As an outright gift. [The root ש-א-ל means here to request as an outright gift,] as in the phrase <span

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Who Sold Yosef/5
...n the phrase (Is 12.6), "Oh, shout for joy (varonni)" – is from the root r-n-n. Robbu would be rendered saeterent in the v

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Avraham's Guests – Angels or Men/2
<li>Consumption by fire – R. Saadia suggests that the root "אכל" is not limited in meaning to eating with one's mouth, but can also

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Wrestling With Angels and Men/5
...>q-1-1. Vayyahas: is from [the root h-s-h, the same root as hasah, in the phrase,] "which Moses divided (hasah)" vayyasar) with an angel and prevailed," is [from the root s-v-r, ] just like shav, qam and ras that have [third

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Dictionary:צְפַרְדֵּעַ/5
...HY BOUNDARIES – נוגף means smiting. So, too, wherever a form from the root נגף occurs, it does not necessarily denote killing but it may mean merel

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Yaakov's Blessing of Yosef/5
...י. i.e. the one who was separated from his brothers. The word נזיר is of a root signifying separation, as in (<a class="source" d ...ozzu is from the root p-z-z, just an yasobbu is from the root s-b-b. Mide FROM THE HANDS OF THE 'avir OF JACOB:

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Sale of the Birthright – A Fair Deal/5
... is derived from 1-v-n. However, if the root were [the geminate root, r-s-s,] like in the phrase (<a class="sou ...h) the word of the LORD," just as vayyiqen is derived from [the root] q-n-h.</text>

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Grammar:Number/5
...t xml:lang="EN">Let there be luminaries (yehi me'orot) – The root hayah ("to be"), when it precedes the subject, does not always agree

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Reparations and Despoiling Egypt/5
...one of the root letters, and the grammatical form of the noun of the same root is נִצּוּל which is of the strong (dageshed) forms, just as דִּב ...THEY SHALL REQUEST [OBJECTS OF SILVER AND GOLD]: As an outright gift. [The root ש-א-ל means here to request as an outright gift,] as in the phrase <span

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Test/5
...>q-1-1. Vayyahas: is from [the root h-s-h, the same root as hasah, in the phrase,] "which Moses divided (hasah)" vayyasar) with an angel and prevailed," is [from the root s-v-r, ] just like shav, qam and ras that have [third

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Purpose of the Sacrifices/2
<li>Shelamim – Shelamim, from the root "שלם" or whole, symbolize man's cognizance that he is whole only due to

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A Nation that Dwells Alone/5
...OCKS I SEE HIM – I look at their origin and at the beginning of their root (descent), and I behold them strongly founded as younder rocks and mountain

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Devorah and Barak's Battle in Prose and Poetry/5
...made me have dominion over the mighty. (14) Out of Ephraim came they whose root is in Amalek; After thee, Benjamin, among thy peoples; Out of Machir came d

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Yehuda's Blessing – Eternal Kingship/5
...to all.] 5 Then shall the sceptre of my kingdom shine forth; And from your root shall arise a stem; 6 And from it shall grow a rod of righteousness to the ...r's face" (due to old age). In the Talmud we find a similar meaning of the root .יקה: "they sat and gathered assemblies (ומקהו אקהתא) in the s

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Yaakov's Dividing of his Camp/5
...:6) "Deal (לאט) gently for my sake with the young man." In לאטי the ל is a root-letter and not a prefix, so that the meaning is, "I will lead on at my slow ...e, "He strove (vayyasar) with an angel and prevailed," is [from the root s-v-r, ] just like shav, qam and ras that have [third

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Commentators:R. Shelomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)/0
...ning-minimalist – When defining words, Rashi tends to assume that each root has only one basic meaning (from which any other contextual meanings are de

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Two Accounts of Creation: Bereshit 1–2/5
...ter י, not as in verse 7. In other words, a letter י' which is part of the root of the verb יצר has been omitted from the written text of the Torah. The

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The Flood Story and Biblical Criticism/0/en
...verses similarly harks back to the opening chapters of Bereshit.  The root ברא is central to the Creati

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Parashat Shemot/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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Why Did Yonah Disobey Hashem/5
...e, "He strove (vayyasar) with an angel and prevailed," is [from the root s-v-r, ] just like shav, qam and ras that have [third

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Yitzchak/5
...mean drinking, for א has no place in the Hebrew words which mean drinking root (שתה).

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Love Your Neighbor As Yourself/5
...s - the thing is well-known [revealed] to all who have intellect. The root of the commandment is well-known - as in the way that he acts to his fellow

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Ben Sorer Umoreh/5
<text xml:lang="EN">סורר (from the root סור to deviate) means, one who deviates from the proper path of life. <b

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Divine Plurals/5
...: is from the root r-d-h, just like veya'asu is from the root '-s-hr veyivku from b-k-h and veyishbu from sh-b-h< ...authority automatically over subsequent generations of their subjects, the root רדה, implies superiority based on natural law by one species over anothe

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Commentators:R. Shemuel b. Meir (Rashbam)/5
...: is from the root r-d-h, just like veya'asu is from the root '-s-hr veyivku from b-k-h and veyishbu from sh-b-h< ... is derived from 1-v-n. However, if the root were [the geminate root, r-s-s,] like in the phrase (<a class="sou

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Yaakov/5
...h) the word of the LORD," just as vayyiqen is derived from [the root] q-n-h.</text> ...>q-1-1. Vayyahas: is from [the root h-s-h, the same root as hasah, in the phrase,] "which Moses divided (hasah)" <span

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Haftarat Tzav/5
...ill burn them up," says Hashem of Hosts, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (20) But to you who fear My name shall the sun of righteousness

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Why is the Goat Sent to Azazel/5
...ra letters, [i.e. they are not letters of the root. They were added to the root letters] to create an [abstract?] noun [or adjective], just like the final

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Dictionary:Cognates and Loanwords/5
...r "to grow"). I am unable to find another [such] use of [words from] this [root] in the Bible other than in the phrase (<a class= ...אזלת יד THAT THEIR: i.e., Israel’s MIGHT IS GONE. ועזוב HELPER: [The root ע-ז-ב here should not be understood in the sense of "leaving" but in the

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Hoshea's wife/5
...omer, Rav Yehuda said: The name can be understood as deriving from the root gamar, to finish. It alludes to the fact that the gentiles sought

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Mordechai's Refusal to Bow/5
...his knees before Elijah (2 Kgs 1:13) – without additional use of the root שחה.

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Bereshit 15 – One Prophecy or Two/5
.... someone who comes and goes, not someone whose roots are in my house. The root occurs in that sense in Proverbs 28,15 דוב שוקק, “a prowling bear.

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Commentators:R. David Kimchi (Radak)/5
...have been vayizad with a dagesh in the letter ז, the middle letter of the root, is not as unusual as it appears, The meaning of the expression is that “ ...o is a variation of the theme of bitterness. If we accept this word as the root of the word מרת in our verse, the meaning would be that these women acti

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Commentators:R. Avraham ibn Ezra/0
...and/or laws of grammar.<fn>Such rules often help him determine the word's root. See, for example his discussion in <a href="IbnEzraBereshitFirstComme

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Where in Egypt Did the Israelites Live/5
...his is the explanation of Menachem ben Seruk). But I say that wherever the root פסח occurs it is an expression for leaping and springing over, so that �

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Levirate Marriage/5
...1">Ex. 12:4</a>) even though tachossu comes from a different root. Many explained the word kis to mean a pouch. There is no need for t ...The concept of transmigration of souls is an ancient tradition having its root already at the time of Moses. In the Sefer Habahir item 195 you find t

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Yaakov's Parting Words to Shimon and Levi/5
...got into the habit of using weapons of violence, מכרתיהם being of the same root as (<a class="source" data-book="English Yechezke ...ence. By stressing the word מכרותיהם, (from the root הכר, something one is conscious of), Jacob in

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A Portrait of Esav/5
...ssion means opposing the spirit of a person. The first word is of the same root as (<a class="source" data-book="English Devarim" ... is derived from 1-v-n. However, if the root were [the geminate root, r-s-s,] like in the phrase (<a class="sou

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Why Was Hashem Angry at Bilam/5
...ים THESE THREE TIMES – By these words he suggested to him: You seek to root out a nation that celebrates three festivals (שלש רגלים) annually?! ...e, "He strove (vayyasar) with an angel and prevailed," is [from the root s-v-r,] just like shav, qam and ras that have [third p

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Eved Ivri/5
הענק תעניק THOU SHALT FURNISH HIM LIBERALLY – The noun from the root ענק denotes an ornament worn high up on the body which thus easily comes ...etter mem in מעון, "lodging," is [a prefix, and is] not part of the root, just like the mem at the beginning of the words מקום and מלו

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Purpose of the Shulchan and Lechem HaPanim/5
...rabic language anything hollow is called קסוא (and this corresponds to the root of this word, which therefore denotes something hollow). ...by Onkelos as a rendering of מנקיותיו denotes "bearers;" it is of the same root as the verb in (<a class="source" title="Yirmeyah

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Haftarat Vaetchanan/5
...carce are they planted. Scarce are they sown. Scarce has their stock taken root in the earth. When He blows upon them, they wither, and the whirlwind takes

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Chronology of the Flood/5
...ather than to man. (12) וייחל עוד, the word is in a passive mode, the root being יחל. If it had been in a hitpael mode, the letter י should have t

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Yosef/5
...em he told to his father. דבה has the same meaning as the verb of the same root in (<a class="source" data-book="English Shir HaS ...16.13</a>), "His arrows (rabbav) surrounded me." [Since the root is a geminate, r-b-b,] that is why there is a dagesh [in the

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Sin of the Golden Calf in Art/5
...ning of ויבן מזבח, viz., וַיָבֶן, he realized (taking the word as from the root בון, to understand, to realize) מִזָּבוּחַ לפניו from him

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Moshe/5
...ere implanted with diametrically opposite natures to create between them a root of hatred. And the Blessed One superadded to this the factor of primo ...shah (“to pull out”) was derived from the name Mosheh, and this root is found only in the sense of saving from water: “He drew me out [yams

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Haftarat Shemot/5
In days to come, Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and bud, and the face of the world shall be filled wi

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Purpose of the Laws of Hybrids/5
...word, formed from three smaller words. It may also stem from a five-letter root.</text> ...in his Textbook that the word consecrated comes from the triliteral root q-d-sh, on account of the seeds' intermixture with one another. (10) <

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Sinning with Quail/5
...d gathered themselves unto them when they left Egypt (the word is from the root אסף, "to gather") (<a class="source" data-book ...an oily taste. לשד: All the letters of the word לשד ("moisture") are root letters. It is like the word לשדי in the phrase <span class="source-lin

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Mizmor 19: Proclaiming God's Glory/5
...es. He says fear because it is the beginning of the commandments and their root; for the servant, unless he fear the master, will not do his behests, and p

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Reuven and Bilhah/5
...en on the last syllable. יצועי denotes a couch, because it is spread (root יצע) with mattresses and sheets; it occurs in this sense frequently in S

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Commentators:R. Shelomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)/5
...EN">יסכה JISCAH – This was Sarah; she was also named Jiscah (from a root meaning ""to see", "to look") because she could see the future by holy insp ...were completely ended" are translated by Onkelos: עד דסף כל דרא (the same root סף as in our text).</text>

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Purpose of the Service of Vayikra 16/5
...ra letters, [i.e. they are not letters of the root. They were added to the root letters] to create an [abstract?] noun [or adjective], just like the final

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Commentators:R. Avraham ibn Ezra/5
...Safam refers to the upper lip. The mem of safam is a root letter. The word sefamo (his beard) in nor trimmed his beard ...>shevas, the first beneath the prefix and the second beneath the first root letter of the word yikkrotekha, which is in the feminine. The tongue

804 KB (62,200 words) - 08:20, 16 December 2021
Yeshayahu's Visions of Mashiach/5
...waters cover the sea. (10) And it shall come to pass in that day, That the root of Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the peoples, Unto him shall the na ...as if it were higher than all hills. ונהרו And they will flow. Root, נהר 'to flow'; comp. נהר river, which is so called on account of its

238 KB (8,135 words) - 01:25, 21 December 2020
Blessings and Curses – Over Which Commandments/5
...to go to serve the gods ofthose nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; (18) and it come to pass, when he hear

137 KB (10,395 words) - 11:48, 28 January 2023
Purpose of Orlah/5
...or seed that had been dropped onto the earth unintentionally and had taken root. When this tree had grown in a region that is inhabited by people, it is co

120 KB (10,012 words) - 18:02, 19 January 2020
Nature of the Chatat/5
...things on the [level] of the simple meaning, and say that it is from this root that God commanded us to always sacrifice from things about which the heart And from this root that we have said - that stumbling in these matters is [common] - He was fu

337 KB (24,882 words) - 13:49, 15 February 2023
Miracles and Mitzvot at Marah/5
...EALER (רפאך). [God is called "healer"] because he "healed" the water. [The root ר-פ-א can refer to making water drinkable;] a similar phrase is used abo

134 KB (6,592 words) - 12:18, 28 January 2023
David/5
...r morning. Neshef must be understood in accordance with its Aramaic root: The night moves past [neshaf ] and the day arrives

128 KB (9,710 words) - 18:03, 19 January 2020
ANE:Sefer Melakhim and the Ancient Near East/5
...(30) And the remnant that is escaped of the house ofJudah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. (31) For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a

156 KB (13,927 words) - 20:51, 13 January 2020
Historical Backdrop of Yeshayahu 40/5
...arce are they planted, Scarce are they sown, Scarce hath their stock taken root in the earth; When He bloweth upon them, they wither, And the whirlwind tak

119 KB (7,461 words) - 18:01, 19 January 2020

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