 Kaspi also insisted on an additional type of differentiation among synonyms, maintaining that there is but one designatum and even the designatees do not differ from one another. Differences among words are embodied in the aspects of the designatum that they emphasize. For example, Kaspi explains that the words ḥerev, sakkin, maakheleth and shelaḥ (javelin) are not synonymous because each designates a different aspect of the object. As far as Kaspi is concerned, all these objects are cutting instruments, knives. One is called ḥerev because it attests to the destruction (ḥurban) of those struck by it; a sakkin designates the stricken victim as subject to danger and then severed from living creatures (according to Kaspi’s interpretation of the root samekh-kaf-nun); the instructive word maakhelet informs us that the stricken one is slaughtered, consumed (neekhal), terminated and so on. The words ḥerev, sakkin, maakhelet and shelaḥ thus designate the same type of tool, a cutting instrument. Different words indicate and describe different phenomena concerning the designatum, but these are not synonyms.