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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 40:10/אבן עזרא על בראשית מ׳:י׳
אעלתה נצה. כמו "הנצו הרמונים" (ש"ה ז יג):
1ITS BLOSSOMS SHOT FORTH. Nitzah (its blossoms) is the same as henetzu (be in flower) in And the pomegranates be in flower (hanetzu) (Cant. 7:13).
בהבשילו אשכלותיה. הפך הבוסר, וכמוהו כי בשל קציר (יואל ד יג), ואם הם שני בנינים:
2AND THE CLUSTERS THEREOF BROUGHT FORTH RIPE GRAPES. Hivshilu (brought forth ripe) is the oppposite of boser (sour grapes).15 Bashal (is ripe) in For the harvest is ripe (bashal) (Joel 4:13) is similar. The two words are similar even though hivshilu in our verse and bashal belong to different conjugational paradigms.16 is in the hifil, bashal is in the kal. Both mean ripened.