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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 17:27/אבן עזרא על בראשית י״ז:כ״ז
אנמולו אתו. מבנין נפעל מן נמל וכן "ונשלוח ספרים" (אסתר ג יג:
1WERE CIRCUMCISED WITH HIM. Nimmolu (were circumcised) is a nifal. Its root is nun, mem, lamed.26 in the mem of nimmolu to make up for the missing nun of the root. The nun of nimmolu is the nun of the nifal. Ve-nishlo’ach (were sent) in And letters were sent (ve-nishlo’ach sefarim) (Est. 3:13) is similar.27 in nimmolu presents a problem. When a letter having a nun as the first letter of its root is conjugated in the nifal as a shelamim it is not vocalized with a cholam (Weiser). I.E. thus points out that we find the same with nishlo’ach. Nishlo’ach is a shelemim nifal and it, too, is vocalized with a cholam, i.e., nishlo’ach rather than nishlach (Filwarg).