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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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David/5
...r morning. Neshef must be understood in accordance with its Aramaic root: The night moves past [neshaf ] and the day arrives

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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

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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

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Philosophy:Theodicy – צדיק ורע לו/5
...to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; (18) and it come to pass, when he heareth t ...Lord been revealed? (2) For he shot up right forth as a sapling, And as a root out of a dry ground; He had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upo

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Purpose of Akeidat Yitzchak/5
...actual, in verse 1 of this chapter, the problem is that we never find the root ידע in a transitive mode; therefore I suggest that the meaning of ידע

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Deconstructing Migdal Bavel/5
...OUND The נ is the plural prefix, and the ה at the end is additional to the root as the ה in ונרדה. ולא ישמעו – THEY MAY NOT UND

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The Suffering Servant in Yeshayahu 53/5
...Lord been revealed? (2) For he shot up right forth as a sapling, And as a root out of a dry ground; He had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upo ...nakh" data-url="Hoshea/14.7$$e1">Hosea 14:7</a>)— and as a root out of dry land, that neither produces fruit, nor distinguishes itself

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Korach's Rebellion/5
...er subsided (שככה)." Similarly the form "הסיבותה – you turned" is from the root s-b-b. (23) ויצא פרח ויצץ ציץ ויגמל שקדי

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Historical Backdrop of Yeshayahu 1/5
...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

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Commentators:R. Moshe b. Nachman (Ramban, Nachmanides)/5
...ah with the chapter of In the beginning G-d created for this is the root of faith, and he who does not believe in this and thinks the world was eter ...-D) SAID. The word Elokim means "the Master of all forces," for the root of the word is e-il, meaning force, and the word Elokim is a

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Revelation to the Elders at Sinai/5
...nt of the Israelites by the decree of Pharaoh, he took a brick, לבנה, same root in Hebrew, and deposited this brick made of sapphire beneath the throne of

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Bizarre Prophetic Commands/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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Aharon/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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Petition of the Two and a Half Tribes/5
<text xml:lang="EN">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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Bilam/5
...a companion [sokhenet] to him” (I Kings 1:2). Just as the root samekh, kaf, nun indicates sexual relations in the cas

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Service of the Levites/5
...Levi at no time worshiped stars. Verily, in but a short space of time, the root which Abraham had planted would have been uprooted, and the sons of Jacob w

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Urim VeTummim/5
...this being an allusion to the אורים) and its promises true (מתמם from the root תמם, an allusion to תמים) (<a class="sourc

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Duration of the Egyptian Exile/5
<h3 xml:lang="en">Ramban's Critique of the Rambam's Sefer HaMitzvot, Root 1</h3>

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Dictionary:Changing Meanings/5
<text xml:lang="EN">Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; ...ning it would tear up its roots, and the same word might also mean to take root. So, too, the meaning of ערירי is "without a child" although ער mean

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Selection of the Priests and Levites/5
...>פן יפרץ LEST [THE LORD] BURST FORTH – The word פרץ is of the same root and meaning as פרצה "a breach"; the sense is: He may slay some of them

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בני הא־להים and בנות האדם/5
...right of such powerful potential opponents. Examples of similar use of the root נפל can be found in Job 14,18 ואולם הר נופל, “even if the m

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Sin of the Golden Calf/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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Purpose of the Pesach/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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Seeing Hashem/5
...nt of the Israelites by the decree of Pharaoh, he took a brick, לבנה, same root in Hebrew, and deposited this brick made of sapphire beneath the throne of ...ll of your people, etc. (Rash'bam) אעביר, "I shall proclaim;" We find this root in a similar context in Exodus 36,6, ויעבירו קול במחנה, "the

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Yosef's Treatment of his Family/5
...lly difficult whichever way one takes it, and could only be explained by a root נשש which otherwise does not occur.</text>

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Literary:Indicators of Achronology/5
 והאפה AND THE BAKER of the king's bread. The root (אפה) is only used of baking bread. old French pistor; English, kneader.

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Prohibition of Blood/5
...e, it is a well known fact that though the Jewish people share a common root, they are different individually in their relative spiritual levels. Th

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Reward and Punishment/5
...to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; (18) and it happen, when he hears the words o ...ss. (The bet, the first letter of the Hebrew word battuhot, is part of the root, as was explained in the First Book.) He says this in order to explain that

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