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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 45:2/אבן עזרא על בראשית מ״ה:ב׳
אבִבְכִי. במקום הפסקא וכמוהו "ראה עֳנִי (איכה ג, א):
1AND HE WEPT ALOUD. The word reads bi-vechi (wept) even though it is a pausal.2 beneath the first bet and a segol beneath the second bet. Our word is vocalized chirik, sheva (Weiser). Oni (affliction) in I am the man that hath seen affliction (oni) (Lam. 3:1) is similar.3 in Lam. 3:1 is vocalized with a chataf kamatz even though it is a pausal. At such times the word is usually vocalized with a cholam. Cf. Deut. 16:3. We thus see that Scripture occasionally vocalizes a pausal as a non pausal.