에스겔 17:7의 주석

Now there was one...eagle The king of Egypt.

gathered its roots Heb. כָּפְנָה, an expression of hunger, like (Job 5:22): “plunder and famine (וּלְכָפָן).” The roots of this vine hungered and longed for that eagle. (Addendum:) Some explain כָּפְנָה like אָסְפָה, gathered, the letters [of כָּפְנָה] being transposed. In the words of our Sages there is something similar to it, for they call a public gathering כְּנוּפְיָא. כָּפְנָה is like כָּנְפָה, amassa in French, brought in, gathered.

and its tendrils it sent forth to him And her emissaries she sent to him, to come to her and water her.

from the furrows of its planting From the water ditches that the first eagle had made for it.