ציטירנדיקער פּירוש אויף משלי 3:20

בְּ֭דַעְתּוֹ תְּהוֹמ֣וֹת נִבְקָ֑עוּ וּ֝שְׁחָקִ֗ים יִרְעֲפוּ־טָֽל׃

דורך זײַן װיסן האָבן זיך די תּהומען געשפּאָלטן, און די הימלען טריפֿן טױ.

Rabbeinu Bahya

אף שמיו יערפו טל, “also its heavens will drip dew.” The simile: “its heavens” (read “his” heavens) refer back to G’d, (א-ל) just as the words ויגרש as well as ויאמר in verse 27 also refer back to that subject at the beginning of verse 26. Alternatively, the simile שמיו, “its heavens,” may refer to Israel, and the construction would be an example of appending something minor to something major. Moses phrased it thus in order to emphasise the great stature of the people of Israel, making the “heavens” subordinate to Israel. A third possibility is that the word שמיו, “its heavens,” refers to the word הארץ, “the earth;” it would not be the first time that the word ארץ appears as masculine. We have several such examples, one of which is Genesis 13,6 ולא נשא אותם הארץ, “the earth could not support them,” where the word נשא is masculine instead of נשאה. Another such example of the word ארץ appearing as masculine is found in Isaiah 9,18 נעתם ארץ instead of נעתן ארץ, “the earth was shaken.” The meaning of our verse then would be: “”the heavens which correspond to the sacred earth will drip dew,” i.e. beneficial dew. The word יערפו would then have the meaning of ירעפו as in Proverbs 3,20: “will drip down.”
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