## Rashi on I Samuel Chapter 15

###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:1:1
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**וְעַתָּה שְׁמַע לְקוֹל דִּבְרֵי ה׳.** פַּעַם אַחַת נִסְכַּלְתָּ, עַתָּה הִזָּהֵר בְּעַצְמְךָ:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Now obey Adonoy's words.** Once you acted foolishly,¹ but now be careful [in your actions].

footnotes:
¹ Shaul had acted improperly by not waiting for Shmuel [Above 13:8-14] as he had been instructed, therefore, Shmuel is warning him now to be careful.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:3:1
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**מִשּׁוֹר וְעַד שֶׂה.** שֶׁהָיוּ בַּעֲלֵי כְּשָׁפִים, וּמְשַׁנִּין עַצְמָן וְדוֹמִין לִבְהֵמָה:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Oxen and sheep.** They were sorcerers, and they would change themselves to appear as animals.²

footnotes:
² Radak suggests another reason for destroying the animals. The Torah specifies that the memory of Amoleik should be erased. Therefore, Shmuel instructed that not even an ox or a sheep should remain about which one might say ‘this animal belonged to Amoleik.’


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:4:1
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**וַיְשַׁמַּע שָׁאוּל.** לְשׁוֹן הַכְרָזָה, כְּמוֹ (שמואל א יד:כ): ״וַיִּזָּעֵק שָׁאוּל״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Shaul summoned.** An expression of announcing [meaning the same] as in .³וַיִזָּעֵק שָׁאוּל

footnotes:
³ Above 14:20.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:4:2
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**וַיִּפְקְדֵם בַּטְּלָאִים.** אָמַר לְכָל אֶחָד וְאֶחָד, שֶׁיִּקַּח טָלֶה מִצֹּאנוֹ שֶׁל מֶלֶךְ, וְאַחַר כָּךְ מָנָה אֶת הַטְּלָאִים, לְפִי שֶׁאָסוּר לִמְנוֹת אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בָּם (בראשית לב:יב): ״לֹא יִסָּפֵר מֵרֹב״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And he counted them with lambs.** He told each one to take a lamb⁴ from the king's flocks, and afterwards he counted the lambs, because it is forbidden to count Jewish people.⁵ for it is stated concerning them, '[which] are too numerous to count.'⁶

footnotes:
⁴ According to Targum this occurred just before Pesach, and the lambs were Pascal sacrifices.
⁵ See Maseches Yoma 22b which states that in order to avoid counting the Bnei Yisroel directly which is forbidden by the Torah, each man took a lamb from the king’s flock and the lambs were then counted. See also Kli Yokor in Bamidbar 1:2 who discusses the exceptions to this rule.
⁶ Bereishis 32:12.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:5:1
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**וַיָּרֶב בַּנָּחַל.** וַיִּלָּחֵם בַּנַּחַל וְרַבּוֹתֵינוּ אָמְרוּ (יומא כב ב): עַל עִסְקֵי נַחַל רָב וְדָן אֶת עַצְמוֹ, וּמָה בִּשְׁבִיל נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת אָמְרָה תּוֹרָה עֲרוֹף עֶגְלָה בַּנַּחַל, בִּשְׁבִיל כָּל הַנְּפָשׁוֹת הָאֵלּוּ לֹא כָּל שֶׁכֵּן, אִם אָדָם חָטָא, בְּהֵמָה מֶה חָטְאָה:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And he fought in the valley.** [Meaning the same as] וַיִלָּחֵם בַּנַּחַל [=and he fought in the valley]. Our Rabbis said, concerning the valley, he argued and concluded, that if for the sake of one life, the Torah said to decapitate a calf in the valley,⁷ how much more for the sake of all these lives.⁸ If man has sinned, what have the animals sinned?

footnotes:
⁷ See Devarim 21:4.
⁸ Shaul rationalized that he will spare the animals to use as sacrifices to atone for the Amoleikites that were killed. For additional arguments presented by Shaul and their consequences, see Maseches Yoma 22b.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:6:1
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**אֶל הַקֵּינִי.** בְּנֵי יִתְרוֹ, שֶׁהָיוּ יוֹשְׁבִין בְּמִדְבַּר יְהוּדָה בְּנֶגֶב עֲרָד, שֶׁהָלְכוּ אֵצֶל יַעְבֵּץ לִלְמוֹד תּוֹרָה, וַעֲרָד הוּא עֲמָלֵק, הַכְּנַעֲנִי מֶלֶךְ עֲרָד, עֲמָלֵק הָיָה, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (במדבר כא:א): ״יוֹשֵׁב הַנֶּגֶב״, וַ״עֲמָלֵק יוֹשֵׁב בְּאֶרֶץ הַנֶּגֶב״ (במדבר יג:כט):

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**To the Kenites.** Who were Yisro's descendants,⁹ who were residing in the wilderness of Yehudah, in the south of Arod, who went to Ya'aveitz to learn Torah, Arod being Amoleik. The Canaanite king of Arod was Amoleik, for it is stated [about him]; "who lived in the South,"¹⁰ and, "Amoleik dwells in the southern part of the land."¹¹

footnotes:
⁹ See Shoftim 1:16.
¹⁰ Bamidbar 21:1.
¹¹ Ibid., 13:29.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:6:2
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**עִם כָּל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל.** שֶׁנֶּהֱנוּ מִסְּעוּדָתוֹ מֹשֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן וְכָל זִקְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, וַהֲרֵי מַעֲלֶה עָלָיו כְּאִלּוּ עָשָׂה חֶסֶד עִם כָּל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**To all the Bnei Yisroel.** Who partook from his [Yisro's] meal, Moshe, Aharon and all the elders of Yisroel.¹² It is considered as though he acted kindly with all the Bnei Yisroel.¹³

footnotes:
¹² See Shemos 18:12.
¹³ It may also refer to Yisro’s hospitality of welcoming Moshe into his home when he escaped from Paroh [Shemos 2:20-21]. Based on this event R. Nechemyah in Maseches Berachos 63b states ‘how great is the reward for one who invites a Torah scholar into his house, gives him to eat and drink, and shares his possessions with him.’ Others believe that the act of kindness with all the Bnei Yisroel refers to the good advice that Yisro gave to Moshe with regard to setting up a system of judges [Shemos 18:14-26], because this benefitted the entire nation.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:9:1
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**וְהַמִּשְׁנִים.** אֵין לוֹ דִּמְיוֹן, וְהֵם הַבְּרִיאִים וְאוֹמֵר אֲנִי: לְשׁוֹן ׳מִשְׁנִים׳, כְּמוֹ (בראשית מג:יב): ״כֶּסֶף מִשְׁנֶה״, עַל שֵׁם שֶׁהוּא כָּפוּל בְּבָשָׂר וּבְשׁוּמָן, וְכֵן (שופטים ו:כה): ״וּפַר הַשֵּׁנִי שֶׁבַע שָׁנִים״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The fattened cattle.** This word has no likeness [in Scripture]. These are the fattened cattle;¹⁴ and I say that the expression of מִשְׁנִים is like וְכֶסֶף מִשְׁנֶה [meaning double money],¹⁵ because they are doubled over with flesh and fat. Similarly, 'And the ox which was fattened [הַשֵּׁנִי] seven years.'¹⁶

footnotes:
¹⁴ According to Mahri Kra מִשֽׁנִים are thoroughbred horses.
¹⁵ Bereishis 43:12.
¹⁶ Shoftim 6:25.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:9:2
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**נִמְבְזָה וְנָמֵס.** כְּמוֹ נִבְזֶה, וְהַמֵּ״ם טְפֵלָה בּוֹ:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Undesirable and inferior.** Meaning the same as נִבְזֶה; and the 'מ' is superfluous.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:11:1
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**נִחַמְתִּי.** מַחֲשָׁבָה עָלְתָה בְּלִבִּי עַל מַלְכוּת שָׁאוּל שֶׁהִמְלַכְתִּי:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**I have reconsidered.** A thought has risen in my heart concerning Shaul's kingship, whom I have appointed king.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:12:1
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**מַצִּיב לוֹ יָד.** בּוֹנֶה לוֹ מִזְבֵּחַ הוּא הַמִּזְבֵּחַ שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בְּאֵלִיָּהוּ (מלכים א יח:ל): ״וַיְרַפֵּא אֶת מִזְבַּח ה׳ הֶהָרוּס״. וְיוֹנָתָן תִּרְגֵּם: ״וְהָא מְתַקֵּן לֵיהּ תַּמָּן אֲתַר לְפַלְגָא בֵּיהּ בִּיזְתָא״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And is setting up a place for himself.** He is building an altar for himself. That is the altar referred to concerning Eliyohu, 'he repaired the ruined altar of Adonoy.'¹⁷ Targum Yonoson renders, 'and he is making room there for himself to divide the spoils.'

footnotes:
¹⁷ Melachim I 18:30.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:16:1
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**הֶרֶף.** כְּתַרְגּוּמוֹ: ״אוֹרִיךְ״, פֵּירוּשׁ הַמְתֵּן:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Stay.** Like the Targum, אוֹרִיךְ meaning 'wait.'


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:17:1
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**רֹאשׁ שִׁבְטֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אָתָּה.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: ״שִׁבְטָא דְבִנְיָמִין עֲבַר בְּיַמָּא בְּרֵישׁ כָּל עַמָּא״, כְּמָה שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (תהלים סח:כח): ״בִּנְיָמִין צָעִיר רֹדֵם״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**You are the head of the tribes of Yisroel.** Targum Yonoson renders, 'the tribe of Binyomin crossed the [Reed] Sea ahead of all the people, as it is said, 'Binyomin, the youngest, rules them.'¹⁸

footnotes:
¹⁸ Tehillim 68:28. You did not follow in Binyomin’s tradition of taking charge and leading the people without questioning the command of ‘ה. You have thus forfeited the merit by which you became king.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:18:1
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**עַד כַּלּוֹתָם אוֹתָם.** הָעָם אֲשֶׁר אִתְּךָ יְכַלּוּ אוֹתָם:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Until they destroy them.** The people who are with you will destroy them.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:19:1
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**וַתַּעַט.** כְּמוֹ וַתָּעָף, לְשׁוֹן עַיִט (בראשית טו:יא):

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**You rushed.** Meaning 'וַתַּעַף' [you flew], an expression related to 'עַיִט' [birds of prey].¹⁹

footnotes:
¹⁹ Bereishis 15:11.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:21:1
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**רֵאשִׁית הַחֵרֶם.** מֵיטַב הַחֵרֶם, וְכֵן (דברים יח:ד): ״רֵאשִׁית דְּגָנְךָ״, כְּמָה שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (במדבר יח:ל): ״בַּהֲרִימְכֶם אֶת חֶלְבּוֹ מִמֶּנּוּ״. וְיוֹנָתָן תִּרְגֵּם: ״קֳדָם דְּיַחְרְמוּן״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The best of that which was to be destroyed.** [רֵאשִׁית] meaning the best of the ,²⁰חֵרֶם and similarly, "the best of your corn,"²¹ as it is stated, "when you set aside the finest part of it."²² Targum Yonoson renders [רֵאשִׁית] 'before they banned it.'

footnotes:
²⁰ Perhaps by his statement Shaul was indicating to Shmuel that they examined the animals to ascertain that none were Amoleikite sorcerers who had changed themselves to appear as animals [See above verse 2].—Da’as Sofrim
²¹ Devarim 18:4.
²² Bamidbar 18:30.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:22:1
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**הִנֵּה שְׁמֹעַ.** בְּקוֹלוֹ, טוֹב מִזֶּבַח:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Behold, obeying** His command is better than a choice offering.²³

footnotes:
²³ ‘ה prefers the fulfillment of His command over the offering of voluntary sacrifices.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:22:2
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**לְהַקְשִׁיב מֵחֵלֶב אֵילִים.** זֶה מוּסָב עַל הִנֵּה שְׁמֹעַ מִזֶּבַח טוֹב, וּלְהַקְשִׁיב, מֵחֵלֶב אֵילִים:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**To hearken [is better] than the fat of rams.** This refers to, "Behold, obeying [is better] than a choice offering, and to hearken [is better] than the fat of rams."


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:23:1
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**כִּי חַטַּאת קֶסֶם מֶרִי וְאָוֶן וּתְרָפִים הַפְצַר.** וּכְעֹנֶשׁ שֶׁל אָוֶן וּתְרָפִים, כֵּן עֹנֶשׁ שֶׁל הַפְצַר וְיוֹנָתָן תִּרְגֵּם: ״אֲרֵי כְחוֹב גַּבְרַיָּא וְכוּ׳ וּכְחוֹבֵי עַמָּא דְטָעוּ בָּתַר טָעוּתָא, כֵּן חוֹבַת כָּל אֱנָשׁ דְּפָצַר וּמוֹסִיף וְכוּ׳״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**For defiance is like the sin of sorcery, and stubborness is like the sin of idolatry.** And like the penalty for idolatry, so is the penalty for stubborness.²⁴ Targum Yonoson renders, 'For, as the sin of a people [who divine, so is the sin of any man who disobeys the word of Adonoy]²⁵ and as the sins of a nation who has strayed after idols, so is the sin of any person who adds [to the words of a prophet].

footnotes:
²⁴ Shaul’s original sin was compared to sorcery, but his insisting on his innocence was compared to the more serious sin of idolatry; Shaul was compounding his original sin by insisting on his innocence.
²⁵ Just as one who divines demonstrates that he removes his trust in ‘ה and looks for other means to determine his future, so does one who disobeys and rebels against the word of ‘ה indicate he removes his belief in the power of ‘ה to reward and punish.—Radak


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:23:2
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**הַפְצַר.** לְשׁוֹן תּוֹסֶפֶת, וְכֵן (בראשית לג:יא): ״וַיִּפְצַר בּוֹ״, הִרְבָּה עָלָיו דְּבָרִים:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Stubborness.** An expression adding, and similarly, "He urged [וַיִפְצַר] him,"²⁶ i.e., he spoke many words to convince him.

footnotes:
²⁶ Bereishis 33:11.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:24:1
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**יָרֵאתִי אֶת הָעָם.** דּוֹאֵג הָאֲדוֹמִי, שֶׁהָיָה חָשׁוּב כֻּלָּם:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**I feared the people.** [Referring to] Do'eg, the Edomite,²⁷ who was as important as all of them.

footnotes:
²⁷ He was the head of the Sanhedrin and was considered a giant in his Torah scholarship. See Maseches Sanhedrin 106b.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:27:1
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**וַיַּחֲזֵק בִּכְנַף מְעִילוֹ.** לְפִי פְּשׁוּטוֹ מַשְׁמָעוֹ, שֶׁכְּשֶׁפָּנָה שְׁמוּאֵל לָלֶכֶת מֵאַחֲרֵי שָׁאוּל, אָחַז שָׁאוּל בְּכָנָף שֶׁל שְׁמוּאֵל, לְפִי שֶׁהָיָה שָׁאוּל מְבַקֵּשׁ מִמֶּנּוּ שֶׁיָּשׁוּב עַד שֶׁיִּשְׁתַּחֲוֶה בַּגִּלְגָּל שֶׁהָיָה שָׁם אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד. וּמִדְרַשׁ אַגָּדָה (שוחר טוב) חוֹלְקִים אֲמוֹרָאִים, יֵשׁ אוֹמְרִים: מְעִילוֹ שֶׁל שְׁמוּאֵל קָרַע שָׁאוּל. וְיֵשׁ אוֹמְרִים: מְעִילוֹ שֶׁל שָׁאוּל קָרַע שְׁמוּאֵל, וּמָסַר לוֹ סִימָן זֶה, מִי שֶׁיִּכְרוֹת כְּנַף מְעִילוֹ, הוּא יִמְלוֹךְ תַּחְתָּיו, וְהוּא שֶׁאָמַר לוֹ שָׁאוּל לְדָוִד בַּיּוֹם שֶׁכָּרַת אֶת הַמְּעִיל (שמואל א כד:כ): ״יָדַעְתִּי כִּי מָלוֹךְ תִּמְלוֹךְ״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And he grabbed the corner of his robe.** According to the simple meaning, it seems that when Shmuel turned to leave Shaul, Shaul grabbed the corner of Shmuel's [robe], since Shaul was asking him to return until he would prostate himself in Gilgol, where the Tent of Meeting was. In Midrash Aggadah, however, Amora'im differ; some say that Shaul tore Shmuel's robe, and some say that Shmuel tore Shaul's robe,²⁸ giving over to him this sign, that whoever will tear a corner of his robe, would reign in his place. And that is what Shaul said to Dovid on the day he tore [Shaul's] robe, 'I know that you will surely reign.'²⁹

footnotes:
²⁸ As a symbol of his loss of kingship. Another version is that Shmuel tore his own robe as a gesture of dismay.
²⁹ Below 24:21. See Rashi’s commentary there.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:29:1
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**וְגַם נֵצַח יִשְׂרָאֵל לֹא יְשַׁקֵּר.** וְאִם תֹּאמַר אָשׁוּב מֵעֲוֹנִי לְפָנָיו, לֹא יוֹעִיל עוֹד לִטּוֹל אֶת הַמְּלוּכָה מִמִּי שֶׁנִּתְּנָה לוֹ, כִּי הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא שֶׁהוּא נִצְחוֹנוֹ שֶׁל יִשְׂרָאֵל, לֹא יְשַׁקֵּר מִלִּתֵּן הַטּוֹבָה לָזֶה שֶׁאָמַר לִתֵּן:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**But, the Eternal One of Yisroel neither lies.** And if you will say, 'I will repent of my sin before Him,' it will no longer avail to take the kingship from the one to whom it was given, for the Holy One, Blessed is He, Who is the Eternal One of Yisroel, will not lie by not giving the good to whom He said to give it.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:32:1
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**אָגַג מַעֲדַנּוֹת.** יוֹנָתָן תִּרְגֵּם: ״אֲגַג מְפַנְּקָא״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Agag went to him bound.** Targum Yonoson renders, mincingly.³⁰

footnotes:
³⁰ Malbim renders ‘joyfully.’


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:32:2
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**אָכֵן סָר מַר הַמָּוֶת.** בֶּאֱמֶת יָדַעְתִּי כִּי סָר וְקָרֵב עָלַי מְרִירַת הַמָּוֶת:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Indeed, the bitterness of death approaches.** Indeed, I know that it has turned and is approaching toward me—the bitterness of death.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:33:1
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**כַּאֲשֶׁר שִׁכְּלָה נָשִׁים חַרְבֶּךָ.** לְהוֹשִׁיבָם אַלְמָנוֹת מִבַּעֲלֵיהֶם, שֶׁהֱיִיתֶם חוֹתְכִים זַנְבֵי בַּחוּרֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**As your sword bereaved women.** To render them widows from their husbands, for you would cut off the membrum virile of the youths of Yisroel.³¹

footnotes:
³¹ See Rashi Devarim 25:18.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 15:33:2
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**וַיְשַׁסֵּף.** חִתְּכוֹ לְאַרְבַּע, וְאֵין לַתֵּיבָה זוֹ דִּמְיוֹן וְתַרְגּוּם וַיְשַׁסֵּף, ״וּפָשַׁח״. וּבַגְּמָרָא שֶׁלָּנוּ יֵשׁ הֲוָה מְפַשַּׁח וְיָהִיב לָן אֲלוּתָא, כְּלוֹמַר בּוֹקֵעַ:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**[Shmuel] cut.** He cut him into four pieces. This word has no likeness [in Scripture]. The Targum renders וַיְשַׁסֵּף as וּפָשַׁח. And in our Gemara we find, 'he broke off [מפשח] a branch, and gave us several twigs,'³² meaning that he split.³³

footnotes:
³² Beitzah 33b.
³³ See Rashi’s commentary in Eichah 3:11.