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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 30:30/אבן עזרא על בראשית ל׳:ל׳
אלרגלי. בעבור רגלי, כי דרך בני אדם לומר רגל טובה יש לפלוני, והטעם כי התברכת משעה שבאתי לביתך, ה"א מאומה נוסף, ונמצא חסר:
1WITHERSOEVER I TURNED. Le-ragli (withersoever I turned) is to be rendered: because of my foot.35 literally means my foot. The lamed prefixed to it is a causal lamed, in Hebrew, lamed ha-sibbah (Weiser). It is the custom of people to say so and so has a good foot.36 What Jacob was saying was: you have been blessed ever since I came to your house. The heh of me’umah (aught in v. 31) is superfluous.37 The word is also found spelled without the heh.38 in Job 31:7.