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Genesis 27:12

אוּלַי יְמֻשֵּׁנִי אָבִי וְ הָיִיתִי בְ עֵינָיו כִּ מְתַעְתֵּעַ וְ הֵבֵאתִי עָלַי קְלָלָה וְ לֹא בְרָכָה
perhaps my father is feeling me, and I have become in his eyes like him-who-deceives, and have caused to come in upon myself an light-one,903 and not a kneeled-one.`
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Hebrew qelalah, #7045. Feminine noun. From the root to make or be light, trifling (#7043). It is the opposite of heavy as used in 1 Kings 12:10,

“…thus you are saying to the People of This one who has ordered toward you to say, Your father has-caused-to-be-heavy אֶת-our yoke, and you must cause-to-be-light [qalal] from over ourselves