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לעיל and לקמן

COM-005Commentary Hebrew and AramaicRashi print and traditional commentary language

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FIRST

לעיל · לקמן

Transliterationle-eil · le-qaman

Plain meaningabove/earlier · below/later

Any vocalization or pronunciation shown here is pedagogical unless the cited source itself is pointed.

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לעיל and לקמן

Commentaries constantly refer the reader to material already discussed or material coming later. לעיל points upward/backward in the text; לקמן points below/forward. They are navigation words and should become automatic.

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לעיל · לקמן

ORIGINAL

COM-005

le-eil · le-qaman

READING

Approved transliteration

above/earlier · below/later

MEANING

Commentary Hebrew and Aramaic

REMEMBER

לעיל and לקמן

לעיל = earlier/above; לקמן = later/below.