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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 36:2/אבן עזרא על בראשית ל״ו:ב׳
אבת ענה בת צבעון. והנה מצאנו כי יש ענה אחי צבעון גם שם בנו ענה, על כן יאמר כי האב והבן או שני האחים, שכבו אשה אחת, והנולדים לא נודעו בן מי הם, ויתכן להיות זאת אהליבמה בת ענה שהוא בן צבעון ויחסה הכתוב לשם אביה ואבי אביה להפריש בין ענה ובין ענה, וי"א כי יש קרח בן עדה ויש קרח בן אהליבמה והקרוב אלי שהוא בן אהליבמה והוא אחד והזכירו הכתוב עם אלופי אליפז שהיה דר עמהם גם יתכן שמתה אמו כי הוא הקטן מבני אהליבמה, וגדלה עדה את קרח עם בניה, ונכתב עליו שהוא מבניה כמו בני מיכל ויהי לה לבן, וכן נכתב על עמלק מבני עדה בעבור שהוא בן שפחת בעלה,
1AND OHOLIBAMAH THE DAUGHTER OF ANAH, THE DAUGHTER OF ZIBEON THE HIVITE. We find in our chapter a man called Anah who is the brother of Zibeon (v. 20). We further read that Zibeon had a son called Anah (v. 24). Our verse thus relates that Zibeon and his son Anah, or perhaps Zibeon and his brother Anah, slept with the same woman and the offspring did not know who their father was.6 However, it is also possible that Oholibamah was the daughter of Anah the son of Zibeon, and Scripture lists her as being the daughter of Anah and Zibeon in order to distinguish between Anah the son of Zibeon and Anah the brother of Zibeon.7 Some say that our chapter speaks of a Korah the son of Adah8. Thus Korah must be Adah’s son. and Korah the son of Oholibamah.9 However, I believe that both are one and the same person. Korah was the son of Oholibamah. The reason he is listed among the chiefs of Eliphaz10 is that he lived among them. It is also possible, since he was Oholibamah’s youngest son, that his mother died when he was still a child and that Adah raised him along with her own family and Scripture includes him with her children. Our case is similar to the five sons of Michal (II Sam. 21:8).11. 19b., “Michal bore these five children? Did not Merab give birth to them?” The Talmud answers, “Merab bore them but Michal raised them. Hence they are called her children.” Korah thus became Adah’s son. Scripture similarly says that Amalek was a son of Adah12. Thus Amalek was the son of Timna, not the son of Adah. because he was the son of the handmaid of her husband.13, read her son. Weiser suggests that I.E. had a tradition that Timna was first Esau’s concubine and then Eliphaz’s concubine, hence I.E.’s statement, “concubine of her husband.” The Bible lists Amalek among Adah’s children because Adah helped raise him (Weiser).
בופי' אלוף נשיא וגדול ואינו כן "ככבש אלוף" (ירמי' יא יט) רק הכ"ף ישרת עצמו ואחר עמו, וכן הוא ככבש כאלוף כי משפט לשון הקדש לדבר כן, כמו "כריע כאח לי" אמר המתרגם גבורים (תהלים לה יד):
2[CHIEF.] The meaning of alluf is a prince or chief. However, this is not the meaning of alluf (docile)14 as ox. Ke-kheves alluf does not mean like a great sheep, but rather like a lamb or like an ox. in ke-kheves alluf (like a docile lamb) (Jer. 11:19). In the latter verse the caf prefixed to keves (lamb) also pertains to alluf; i.e., the verse is to be read as if written ke-kheves ke-alluf (like a lamb, like an ox). The latter is normal Hebrew usage,15 in succession, meaning like this or like that. as can be seen in I went about as though it had been my friend (ke-re’a) or my brother (ke-ach) (Ps. 35:14).