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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 11:14/אבן עזרא על במדבר י״א:י״ד

אכי כבד. פעל עבר כמו כי זקן יצחק או יחסר הוא:

1BECAUSE IT IS TOO HEAVY FOR ME. The word kaved (heavy) is a verb in the perfect.⁶² Compare, zaken (was old) in And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old (Gen. 27:1).⁶³ can be a perfect or a present form. In Gen. 27:1, it is a perfect. On the other hand, the word hu (it) might be missing from our text.⁶⁴. In this case, khaved is a present.