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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 22:3/אבן עזרא על במדבר כ״ב:ג׳
אויגר מואב. כמו ויירא וכן גורו לכם:
1AND MOAB WAS SORE AFRAID. Va-yagar means was afraid. Guru lakhem (be ye afraid) (Job 19:29) is similar.
בויקץ. כמו הפוך וכמוהו נעלה ביהודה ונקיצנה:
2AND MOAB WAS OVERCOME WITH DREAD. Va-yakatz (overcome with dread) has the same meaning as a similarly spelled word whose letters are inverted.3 is spelled vav, yod, tzadi, kof. Va-yakatz is spelled vav, yod, kof, tzadi. U-nekitzennah (and vex it) in Let us go up against Judah, and vex it (Is. 7:6) is similar.