Commentaire sur Les Juges 3:22
וַיָּבֹ֨א גַֽם־הַנִּצָּ֜ב אַחַ֣ר הַלַּ֗הַב וַיִּסְגֹּ֤ר הַחֵ֙לֶב֙ בְּעַ֣ד הַלַּ֔הַב כִּ֣י לֹ֥א שָׁלַ֛ף הַחֶ֖רֶב מִבִּטְנ֑וֹ וַיֵּצֵ֖א הַֽפַּרְשְׁדֹֽנָה׃
La poignée suivit la lame, autour de laquelle se referma la graisse, car il ne retira point du corps son épée, qui ressortit par derrière.
Rashi on Judges
The hilt. The iron into which the blade is inserted, called 'hulot' in old French. This balances the sword in its scabbard.
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Metzudat David on Judges
Also the handle: so that he would die immediately without screaming. it was stuck deep.
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Metzudat Zion on Judges
The handle: this is the handle of the sword that it is based on to do its job
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Rashi on Judges
The blade. The sharpened section, called "brant" and "lama" in old French.
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Metzudat David on Judges
And the fat closed it: he grabbed the blade of the sword so that it wouldn't come out. Ehud did not draw the sword from his stomach because he felt that less blood will drip on him and it will excite the people that will see it on his way out
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Metzudat Zion on Judges
the blade: this is the sword because it was shiny like a flame when its unsheathed as in Nachum 3:3 "the flashing sword."
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Rashi on Judges
The fat closed. His fat. He was extremely corpulent, so that he enclosed the entire length of the dagger.
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Metzudat David on Judges
the waste left him: this was a reason why (the guards) thought that he was reliving himself because the smell of the waste was disgusting
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Metzudat Zion on Judges
Drawn: taking it out. as in Joshua 5:13 "his drawn sword."
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Rashi on Judges
Waste matter oozed. Yonasan renders, "Spilled waste matter oozed." He reads this as a contraction of two words with the 'shin' serving both.9 פַּרְשְׁדֹֽנׇה is read as פֶּרֶשׁ־שְׁדוֹנׇא, “spilled waste matter”, with the middle ש serving as the last letter of פֶּרֶשׁ and the first letter of שְׁדוֹנׇא. "spilled waste matter" [oozed].10The waste matter first spilled from the abdomen into the body, then it oozed from the wound. (Ralbag).שְׁפַךְ, "spilled", is the translation of שְׁדָא11Or שְׁדוֹנׇא. according to Yonasan.
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Metzudat Zion on Judges
The waste: The dung and the excrement.
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