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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 41:21/אבן עזרא על בראשית מ״א:כ״א
אומראיהן. ומראה כל אחת מהן רע ופה הוסיף לפרש חלומו שראה שבאו הפרות הטובות בקרב הרעות, והי' כאשר הי' בראשונה:
1BUT THEY WERE STILL ILL-FAVORED. Each one of the kine was ill-favored.43 (favored) is a plural; ra (ill) is a singular. Thus marehen ra is a combination of singular and plural. I.E. explains this by noting that it means each one of the kine was ill-favored. This is how the medieval grammarians explained this type of combination (Weiser). Here Pharaoh expanded in his description of his dream and added that after the ill-favored kine had eaten the fat kine, they were still ill-favored as at the beginning.44. Here, unlike verse 19, the addition is significant. The entire verse consists of Pharaoh’s elaboration of his dream.