“And went to Ḥaran [Ḥarana]” – the Rabbis said: On the same day. Rabbi Berekhya said in the name of Rabbi Yitzḥak: As people say: So-and-so went to Caesarea, and until now he has the provisions he set out with. Ḥarana – it is taught in the name of Rabbi Neḥemya: Any word that requires a lamed at its start, a heh is placed at its end: Sedoma, Se’ira, Mitzraima, Ḥarana.8Both the lamed and the heh mean “to.”
The lamed which appears at the beginning of the word can be replaced with a heh at the end of the word. They raised an objection: But is it not written: “The wicked will return to the netherworld [lishola]”9There is both a lamed at the beginning and a heh at the end. (Psalms 9:18)? Rabbi Abba bar Zavda said: It is to the lowest compartment in the netherworld.10Both letters are used to emphasize how low it is.