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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 11:6/אבן עזרא על שמות י״א:ו׳

אוהיתה צעקה גדולה. לא ראינו כזאת בכל המקרא לומר "כמוהו לא נהיתה", וכמוהו לא תוסיף, ותחסר מלת על, וככה הוא אשר כמוהו לא נהיתה, ועל כמוהו לא תוסיף צעקה:

1AND THERE SHALL BE A GREAT CRY. We do not find Scripture elsewhere stating anything like kamohu lo nihyatah ve-khamohu lo tosif (such as there hath been none like it, nor shall be like it anymore).³⁶ (like it) is masculine whereas nihyatah (hath been) and tosif (shall be) are feminine. The word al (over) has been omitted from our verse and the clause should be understood literally as follows: such as over it there hath been none like it, nor such over it shall be like it a cry anymore.³⁷ and tosif refer to tze’akah (cry), a feminine noun mentioned in the first part of the verse. This eliminates the problem of having a masculine preposition/pronoun (kamohu) connected to feminine verbs (nihyatah, tosif).

בוטעם כמוהו, שוד או שבר או מות והדומה להם:

2Such as like it (kamohu) refers to havoc, calamity, death, and the like.³⁸