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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 32:21/אבן עזרא על בראשית ל״ב:כ״א
אכי אמר. יעקב בלבו, ואלה דברי משה,
1FOR HE SAID. He said in his heart.39 These are the words of Moses.40
בופי' אכפרה פניו אכסה ואסתיר, ופניו כעסו וכן "ופניה לא הי' לה עוד" (ש"א א יח):
2[I WILL APPEASE HIM.] Akhapperah (I will appease him) means I will cover or hide.41 is caf, peh, resh, which means to cover. Panav (him)42 usually means face or countenance. Here it means anger. Jacob said, “I will cover his anger”; i.e., I will appease him. Weiser suggests that since anger is expressed in the face, face is, by extension, occasionally used as a synonym for anger. means his anger. Peneha (her countenance) in and her countenance (u-faneha) was no more sad43 (I Sam. 1:18) is similar.