1. Ibn Ezra uses the expression שם a noun; he means perhaps שם הפועל infinitive or verbal noun, as contrasted with פועל participle, and שם התואר common noun; in the latter cases the plural form would be used. Comp. c. iii., Note 5.

2. Another opinion is mentioned, Midrash Yalkut ad locum: R. Johanan compares these words (קומי אורי) to those uttered by one who is about to travel at night a little before dawn; he gets a candle lit, but the flame is blown out; he gets another candle, but it meets with the same fate; he then resigns himself and says: I shall not trouble myself any longer with those candles, I shall wait for the light of the morning. The same was the case with the Israelites: they said: We have lit the candle in the time of Moses; it has been put out; under king Solomon we lit another candle, this also was extinguished; we must now resign ourselves and wait, till the Lord himself will renew for us the light. Therefore God said: Arise, my light (אורי), etc. Ibn Ezra thought, perhaps, of this or similar passages in the Midrash, when he considered it necessary to remind us repeatedly that the words קומי אורי are addressed to Zion.

3. קדוש ישראל is the genitive; but it cannot be governed by ציון, because the latter is a proper noun, and proper nouns do not govern a genitive; wherever, therefore, this seems to be the case, another noun in apposition to it is supplied, as e.g. here, the word עיר city.