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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 35:17/אבן עזרא על בראשית ל״ה:י״ז
אבהקשותה. מהבנין הכבד הנוסף, והטעם שהקשתה הלידה על נפשה וכן ותקש (פסוק טז), רק הוא מהבנין הכבר הדגוש, כמו ותכל להשקותו (בראשית כד יט):
1WHEN SHE WAS IN HARD LABOR. Be-hakshotah (when she was in hard) is a hifil. The meaning of be-hakshotah be-lidtah (when she was in hard labor) is: the delivery caused her pain.15 is a causative form. If this is the case then be-hakshotah must be transitive, hence I.E.’s comment that it means caused her hardship. Cf. Kimchi. Va-tekash (and she had hard labor, in v. 16) is similar. 16 However the latter is a pi’el. Va-tekash is similar to va-tekhal (and she was done) in And when she had done (va-tekhal) giving him drink (Gen. 24:19).17 is short for va-tekasheh as va-tekhal is short for va-tekhalleh.