Timeline for Rashi says word is redundant
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| Dec 10, 2015 at 18:22 | comment | added | SAH | ..."written language and was written using oral patterning, which has many pleonasms." (-Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleonasm#Syntactic_pleonasm ) | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 18:21 | comment | added | SAH | Not sure if this is applicable, but there is a concept in grammar known as pleonasm, which is occasionally expressed as "redundancy" or "tautology," in which a strictly unnecessary word is used deliberately as part of the idiom. There seems to be a related stylistic concept in Hebrew: "When Robert South said, "It is a pleonasam [sic], a figure usual in Scripture, by a multiplicity of expressions to signify one notable thing," he was observing the Biblical Hebrew poetic propensity to repeat thoughts in different words, since written Biblical Hebrew was a comparatively early form of + | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 16:37 | vote | accept | Daniel | ||
| Dec 10, 2015 at 16:14 | comment | added | mevaqesh | see the answers here: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/18799/… | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 15:43 | comment | added | DanF | Doesn't אֵפוֹא mean, "then"? So the translation would be "If this is so, THEN do this...". (OK, some coding languages don't require the word "then" in an "if" statement). But, it seems that this word isn't redundant at all. Does Rash"i or anyone else give examples of a similar construct in Tana"ch where this is not used? | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 14:42 | answer | added | Gershon Gold | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 14:40 | history | edited | Isaac Moses♦ |
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| Dec 10, 2015 at 14:37 | history | edited | msh210♦ |
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| Dec 10, 2015 at 14:30 | history | asked | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |