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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 41:8/אבן עזרא על בראשית מ״א:ח׳
אותפעם רוחו. מבנין נפעל, כמו "נפעמתי ולא אדבר" (תהלים עז ה), וי"א שהכל מן גזרת "הולם פעם" (ישעי' מא ז), והטעם שהרוח דומה לגוף המוכה:
1THAT HIS SPIRIT WAS TROUBLED. Va-tippa’em (was troubled) is a nifal. It is similar to nifamti13. The nun of the nifal is missing in va-tippa’em because it is an imperfect with a conversive vav, and the nun of the nifal is dropped in the future and is compensated by a dagesh in the first letter of the root. in I am troubled (nifamti) and cannot speak (Ps. 77:5). Others say14 that both va-tippa’em and nifamti come from the same root as pa’am (anvil)15 (that his spirit was troubled) thus is: that his spirit was beaten. in that smiteth the anvil (pa’am) (Is. 41:7). Its meaning is that his spirit was like a beaten body.16 (was beaten) can govern rucho (his spirit).
בחרטומי. מלה מרובעת ויתכן להיותה ארמית או מצרית, והם חכמי התולדה:
2MAGICIANS OF. Chartume (magicians of) comes from a quadriliteral root.17. However, it is possibly an Aramaic or Egyptian word. It means a scientist.18
גואת כל חכמיה. במזלות ופתרון חלומות:
3AND ALL THE WISE MEN THEREOF. Men learned in astrology and dream interpretation.