Tanach · Rishonim on Tanach · Ibn Ezra · Torah
Ibn Ezra on Numbers 24:6/אבן עזרא על במדבר כ״ד:ו׳
אנטיו. דגשות הטי"ת להתבלע נו"ן נטה כי יש נחלים שינטו כה וכה ועליהם אילנים:
1STRETCHED OUT. The tet of nittayu (stretched out) rceives a dagesh to compensate for the nun of natah (stretched),10 comes from the root nun, tet, heh. which is swallowed.11 is a nifal. Its nun is the nun of the nifal form, not the nun of the root. If the nun of the root were present, the word would read nintayu. Scripture reads stretched out because there are rivers that turn here and there and have trees over them.
בכאהלים. כמו מר ואהלות והנה דמה האהלים כנחלים נטיו:
2AS ALOES. Ahalim (aloes) is similar to the word ahalot (aloes) in myrrh, and aloes (Ps. 45:9).12 (aloes) is in the masculine and ahalot (aloes) in the feminine. Note, Balaam compares the tents13 to stretched-out rivers.14
גכארזים. כפול בטעם והזכיר הארזים כארז בלבנון ישגה:
3AS CEDARS. Scripture repeats itself.15 Balaam mentions cedars in the sense of He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon (Ps. 92:13).