Ezra 6:2 Commentary: Rashi, Rambam, Ibn Ezra & More

וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֣ח בְּאַחְמְתָ֗א בְּבִֽירְתָ֛א דִּ֛י בְּמָדַ֥י מְדִינְתָּ֖ה מְגִלָּ֣ה חֲדָ֑ה וְכֵן־כְּתִ֥יב בְּגַוַּ֖הּ דִּכְרוֹנָֽה׃ (פ)

And there was found at Ahmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written: ‘A record.

Rashi on Ezra

And there was found in a pouch And a text of one scroll was found there in an אַחְמְתָא. So did the interpreters interpret, that it is a receptacle made for letters, written sheets and books, and they established it from the root of (Gen. 21:14): “a skin of water (וְחֵמַת מַיִם),” and the “aleph” in the word is not a radical, like the rest of the Aramaic language.
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Rashi on Ezra

in the citadel in that citadel that was in the province of Media.
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Rashi on Ezra

and so was written and so was written therein its memorandum.
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