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Shema (V'ahavta):
Deconstruction
Relate modern מאוד to liturgical מאדך and its semantic expansion.
Line-by-line breakdown · 5
- וּבְכָל … וּבְכָל … וּבְכָל — 'and with all … and with all …' — the inseparable preposition בְּ ('with/in') prefixed, with the conjunction וְ becoming וּ before it.
- לְבָבְךָ / נַפְשְׁךָ / מְאֹדֶךָ each end in the 2ms suffix ־ְךָ ('your') — exactly the pronominal possession you're drilling this week.
- מְאֹדֶךָ is literally 'your might / very-much' — the same word as modern מְאוֹד ('very'), here a noun ('all your might').
- כָּל ('all of') governs each noun in the construct relationship (formalised in Week 7).
- Note בְּכָל stacks the בְּ preposition with כָּל — layered particles you'll keep meeting.