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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 20:6/אבן עזרא על בראשית כ׳:ו׳
אלנגוע. ולגעת כמו לנטוע (ישעי' נא טז) ולטעת (קהלת ג ב) וכולם הם שמות פועל:
1TO TOUCH. Li-nego’a (to touch) means the same as la-ga’at.11. The root of li-nego’a is nun, gimel, ayin. In la-ga’at the nun is dropped; in li-nego’a it remains. The point is that in this peh nun the nun is not dropped in one form of the infinitive. It is treated as a shelemim, a root that does not drop a letter. We find the same with the root nun, tet, ayin (to plant). The same is true12 with li-neto’a (to plant)13 and la-ta’at.14 All of the above are infinitives.15 forms.