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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 45:14/אבן עזרא על בראשית מ״ה:י״ד
אצוארי. ימצא לשון רבים ויחיד, ועם תוספות נו"ן אכן האל"ף לא נעדר:
1NECK. Scripture employs both the plural and singular forms for the neck.10. Cf. Is. 8:8 and Jer. 28:10; tzavvare is a plural. However, the plural is occasionally also used for the singular when this noun is employed. We also find the word for neck spelled with a nun.11 (thy neck) in Cant. 4:9. However, its alef is never dropped.12 in tzavveronayikh. Filwarg suggests that in I.E.’s copy of the Bible tzavveronayikh had an alef. Also, Kimchi in his book of roots says that tzavveronayikh is spelled with an alef. Weiser suggests that what I.E. means is that tzavveronayikh should have been written with an alef but for some reason it was dropped.