M-SH-L – ‘archetype, symbol’

…it is evident that the sun and the moon rule over the day and night. Indeed, Moses would be but little understood if one were to stop at an idea so trivial. The verb משול means, it is true, to be ruler, judge, prince; but it signifies much oftener to be the model, the representation, the symbol of something; to speak in allegories, in parables; to present a similitude, an emblem, a figure. This verb is produced from the root שו which containing in itself every idea of parity, similitude and representation, is joined to the signs מ and ל, to express its exterior action and its relative movement…[and] invested with the continued facultive of the sign מ, which doubles the force of its action. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 47)