## Rashi on I Samuel Chapter 5

###### Rashi on I Samuel 5:2:1
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**אֵצֶל דָּגוֹן.** דְּמוּת עָשׂוּי כִּדְמוּת דָּג:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Beside Dagon.** The idol was made in the form of a fish.¹

footnotes:
¹ From the word דָג [=fish]. Some say that from the waist up it had a human form with hands, and from the waist down it looked like a fish.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 5:4:1
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**הַמִּפְתָּן.** אַסְקוּפָּה:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The threshold.** The equivalent of אַסְקוּפָה [=threshold].


###### Rashi on I Samuel 5:6:1
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**וַיְשִׁמֵּם.** לְשׁוֹן שְׁמָמָה:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And He devastated them.** An expression [שְׁמָמָה] meaning desolation.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 5:6:2
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**בַּטְּחוֹרִים.** חַלְחֹלֶת, כַּרְכְּשָׁא, מַכַּת הַנֶּקֶב, עַכְבָּרִים נִכְנָסִין בְּנִקְבֵיהֶם וְשׁוֹמְטִין בְּנֵי מְעֵיהֶם, וְיוֹצְאִין:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**With hemorrhoids.** The mesentery of the large intestine, a plague of the rectum. Mice would enter their recta, disembowel them, and crawl out.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 5:9:1
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**וַיִּשָּׂתְרוּ.** כְּמוֹ וַיִּסָּתְרוּ, שֶׁהֲרֵי הוּא בַּמָּסוֹרֶת כְּתוּבִים שִׁי״ן, וּמְפֹרָשִׁים בִּלְשׁוֹן סָמֶ״ךְ, מַכַּת בֵּית הַסְּתָרִים:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And they were afflicted internally.**וַיִשָֹּתְרוּ is identical with וַיִסָּתְרוּ for it is listed in the Masora among those words written with a 'שֹ' and explained as though it were written with a 'ס' meaning "there was a plague in the hidden parts of the body."²

footnotes:
² Or it may mean that the plague occurred at night when it was dark and they were unable to see the שְׁרָצִים, i.e., the plague was hidden from them.—Da’as Sofrim


###### Rashi on I Samuel 5:11:1
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**מְהוּמַת מָוֶת.** כָּל מְהוּמוֹת עַל יְדֵי רַעַם, וְזֶה אֲבִיהֶן, ״וַיַּרְעֵם ה׳ בְּקוֹל גָּדוֹל (בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא) עַל פְּלִשְׁתִּים וַיְהֻמֵּם״ (שמואל א ז:י), כָּךְ מְפֹרָשׁ בְּאַגָּדַת שְׁלשִׁים וּשְׁתַּיִם מִדּוֹת דְּרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר בְּנוֹ שֶׁל רַבִּי יוֹסֵי הַגְּלִילִי:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Deadly upheaval.** All upheavals [mentioned in Scripture] are caused by thunder. The following is the origin: "Adonoy thundered with a great noise on that day against the Philistines, making them panic.³ It is so explained in the Aggadah of Thirty-Two Rules of R. Eliezer, the son of R. Yose Haglili.

footnotes:
³ Below 7:10.