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Ibn Ezra on Leviticus 13:20/אבן עזרא על ויקרא י״ג:כ׳

אוהנה מראה. לא יתכן בדקדוק מראה בקמץ גדול תחת האל״ף והה״א במפיק כמו ידה רגלה כי לא נמצא כן בבעלי הה״א הנח הנעלם בסוף המלה ודגשות נו״ן:

1AND, BEHOLD, IF THE APPEARANCE THEREOF. It is not grammatically correct to vocalize the alef of mareha (its appearance) with a long kamatz and a mappik⁴⁴ of marah is a pronominal suffix. We would therefore expect it to have a mappik. Hence I.E.’s comment. in the heh as in the case of yadah (her hand) and raglah (her foot),⁴⁵ (her hand) and raglah end in kamatz, mappik heh. If marehah followed their vocalization, the word would read marah. for we do not find words whose roots end in a silent heh to be so treated.⁴⁶.