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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 41:6/אבן עזרא על בראשית מ״א:ו׳
אושדופות. שארע שדפון מרוח מזרחית, כי נקרא מזרח קדם, בעבור צאת השמש בתחלה
1AND BLASTED. U-shedufot kadim means they were blasted by a wind coming from the east for kadim means east. East is so termed because the sun rises there first.11 means first. Cf. Is. 23:7; Ezek. 38:17. I.E. makes this point because kedem can also mean front. However, a circular object (the earth) has no front (Krinsky). Shedufot kadim can be rendered as blasted by the east. Hence I.E. points out that east refers to an east wind.