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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 27:11/אבן עזרא על בראשית כ״ז:י״א
אשעיר. בעל שער, וההפך חלק, ויתכן שנקרא כן בעבור היות החלק חלקיו שוים:
1HAIRY. The word sa’ir means hairy. The opposite of sa’ir is chalak (smooth) (v. 11). Someone without hair on his body is possibly so called (chalak) because all parts of his body (chalakav) are the same.9 means a part, chalak one whose entire body appears to be one part. The idea is that a hairy person has some non-hairy parts on his body; hence his body is not all the same. The smooth man’s skin is the same all over his body (Filwarg).