Rebekah's Weariness — Genesis 27:46
קַצְתִּי
What to look for
In Rebekah's cry — 'I am weary of my life because of the Hittite women' — the qof of katzti is written small.
What it is
A small letter in Rebekah's complaint that sets up Jacob's journey to find a wife.
Why it matters
The diminished letter sits inside the very word of being diminished — weariness shrinking the script.
How it has been understood
Readers have long noticed that the mothers of Israel speak some of Scripture's rawest lines, and the scribal tradition did not smooth this one over; it let the letter sag with the sentence. From this weariness comes the journey that builds the twelve tribes.