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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 46:3/אבן עזרא על בראשית מ״ו:ג׳
אמרדה. מקור, והוא חסר הפ"א כמו "אשר תנה הודך" (תהלים ח ב):
1TO GO DOWN. Me-redah (to go down) is an infinitive. Its first root letter is missing.1 is made up of the infinitive redah (go down) plus the prepositional mem. The root of redah is yod, resh, dalet. Me-redah is similar to tenah in Whose majesty is rehearsed (tenah) above the heavens (Ps. 8:2).2 is nun, tet, nun. Both redah (whose yod is missing) and tenah (whose nun is missing) are infinitives whose first root letters are missing.