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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 16:11/אבן עזרא על בראשית ט״ז:י״א
אהנך. לנקבה, כי הן מלת ענין כמו עם, ומשקלו עמך:
1BEHOLD THOU. Hinnakh (behold thou) is the form used when a female is being addressed, because it is a preposition. It is like the word im (with); it follows the paradigm of immakh (with you).10. Compare, sifrech (your book) or lekhtekh (your going). Thus I.E. points out that prepositional words such as immakh (with you), lakh (to you) and bakh (in you) are vocalized with a kamatz in place of a tzere.
בישמעאל. בהעלם האל"ף להקל על הלשון:
2ISHMAEL. The alef of Ishmael is not pronounced to simplify enunciation.