Commento su Isaia 8:1
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י קַח־לְךָ֖ גִּלָּי֣וֹן גָּד֑וֹל וּכְתֹ֤ב עָלָיו֙ בְּחֶ֣רֶט אֱנ֔וֹשׁ לְמַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז׃
E l'Eterno mi disse: 'Prendi una grande tavoletta e scrivici su un copione comune: il bottino accelera, la preda corre;
Rashi on Isaiah
scroll Heb. גִּלְיוֹן, like מְגִלָה. ([Mss. add:] Or a tablet.)
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
גליון. According to some related to מגלה scroll; the י of גליון compensates for the omission of the Dagesh in ל; comp. דליו They are poor (Prov. 26:7).1Our editions have ל ,גִּלָּיוֹן with a Dagesh, like ﬠִוָּרוֹן ,זִכָּרוֹן etc., of the root גלה, the ה being changed into י as in the participle passive Kal גָּלוּי; according to I. E. it is derived from גלל, like רליו from רלל.
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Rashi on Isaiah
in common script In script which any man who reads it can skim through quickly, even a very common man, even if he is not intelligent. In this manner Jonathan renders: in a distinct script.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
בחרט In the form of.2A. V. With a man’s pen.2A. V. With a man’s pen. Comp. Exod. 32:4. בחרט אנוש. In the form of a man. That is, in a form cast in the same way as the figure of a man is cast.2*According to this explanation we have to imagine the גליוז as a cylindric pillar, on the top of which the words Maher Shalal, etc., were cast in metal. Others3This seems to be the opinion adopted by Ibn Ezra, chap. 3:23. take גליון as the singular to גליונים (3:23) a cloth to which the writing was affixed by embroidery. Maher-shalal-hash-baz.3*The meaning of these four words is: Quick is the spoil, swift the prey, viz. of Samaria, to pass into the conqueror’s hand. The prophet is told to indicate by these words the fall of Samaria.
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Rashi on Isaiah
to hasten loot, speed the spoils For Sennacherib to come and to loot all the possessions of the ten tribes and to speed Nebuchadnezzar to pillage Zedekiah and his generation.
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