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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 40:15/אבן עזרא על בראשית מ׳:ט״ו
אמארץ העברים. אפרשנו בפסוק כי תקנה עבד עברי (שמות כא ב), ואחר כל חלום במקרא מלת הנה טעמה כאילו:
1OUT OF THE LAND OF THE HEBREWS. I will explain this in my comments on If thou buy a Hebrew servant (Ex. 21:2). When the term hinneh (behold) is found in Scripture following a dream, its meaning is as it were.28 (behold) applies to something real. However, when used to describe what one saw in a dream it means: as it were, as if. Cf. Gen. 28:12; 37:7-10; 41:2-6, 18-23.