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Why does Tanach specifically describe these males as "beautiful"?
The commentators seem to address the beaity of the three men in different ways.
Regarding Yosef, Rashi on Bereshis 39:6 rebukes him for trying to look better as he was getting a position of rulling ...
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Word switching from plural to singular when it is many?
It seems that the plural is dropped when the number of objects is large enough that the individuals are indistinguishable within the mass, in which case they are simply referred to as a single mass of ...
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Word switching from plural to singular when it is many?
This happens pretty frequently with nouns in Hebrew, when either a large unspecified number is meant, or a number larger than ten.
See eg Bereishit 32:6 or Shemot 26:19.
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Tanach without Christian chapter divisions
If you're fine with an online Tanach as opposed to in-print, you can use https://www.basehasefer.com/#/parshaViewer (at my site).
It initially displays a grid of high-level summary info on each פרשה ...
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Why is "son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian" called that way?
The Ramban explains that it teaches us that he is Jewish but has no inheritance in the tribal land allotments, because those are along the paternal line.
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Why is "son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian" called that way?
The son of Israelite woman according to Rashi on Vaikra 24:10 quoting Midrash Tanchuma 24, was a son of the man killed by Moshe in Egypt. That man (see Rashi) raped Sh'lomis bas Divri and was making ...
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Will accidentally wetting a page of an English Tanakh rend it non kosher?
There is no such term as kashrus of the book. Traditionally, Jewish people prefer reading books from publishers with known reputation and avoiding publishers mistranslating and misinterpreting the ...
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Masoretic v Septuagint
Like the Samaritan Torah, the Septuagint spoon feeds. Not trying to knock them, but I, we, must choose the Masoretic Torah. Even God chose the Masoretic Torah (this a whole other story).
I think it's ...
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Silent aleph (no, I mean really silent)
Joshua Blau "Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew" section 3.3.4 Aleph (Glotal stop), pp. 86-89 explains regarding the letter and the sound of Aleph:
Aleph serves as a vowel letter in ...
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