And this is precisely in a place where it is possible to interpret that the noun through which the action is done comes for example. But in a place where the noun is right after the verb, like ושרף באש (and burn with fire)¹⁸⁶, and we do not know whether the noun באש comes in its precise meaning and it is precisely fire or it comes in its broad meaning and it includes even a wick of lead as a subcategory of fire, it will be the opposite. Whenever it says ושרף באש in which the noun באש comes to clarify the verb ושרף, it means precisely with fire. (Because the rule is that a noun that comes to clarify the verb always comes in its precise meaning.) But whenever it says באש תשרף (it shall be burnt with fire), the verb תשרף comes to clarify the noun באש – then it comes to include all types of burning that comes through fire. And moreover, it talks about this in the Babylonian Talmud Pesachim 75.

footnotes: ¹⁸⁶ Leviticus 4:12.