Ibn Ezra on Ki Sisa 32:25

English: AND WHEN MOSES SAW THAT THE PEOPLE WERE BROKEN LOOSE. The word paru’a (broken loose) is similar to yippare’a (cast off restraint) in Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint (Prov. 28:18), and va-tifre’u (ye have set at nought) in But ye have set at nought all my counsel (Prov. 1:25). [FOR A DERISION.] Scripture employs an adjective ( le-shimtzah ) in place of an infinitive. 118 In place of the infinitive le-hashmitz . The meaning of le-shimtzah (for a derision) is that they will be a derision, a blemish, a defamation. 119 People will whisper about their faults, deriding them, defaming them. AMONG THEIR ENEMIES. Kamehem (their enemies) 120 Kamehem can be translated as their ri