Ibn Ezra HaKatzar is a 12th-century biblical commentary by Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra. The work focuses on the plain or peshat meaning of the text and incorporates grammar and linguistics. It is at times terse and cryptic in its language, likely the motivation for the work’s numerous supercommentaries. Ibn Ezra wrote two separate Torah commentaries. The first, composed in Italy around 1143 CE, called the perush hakatzar (“the short commentary”) because the biblical quotations used to signal the subject of comments (known as lemmas, or dibburei hamatchil in Hebrew) were relatively shorter than in his other commentary. The second, known as the perush ha’arokh ("the long commentary"), was likely written in 1153 in France after Ibn Ezra fell sick and vowed that he would write another Torah commentary if God healed him.