te.chor refers to bodily tumors inflicted as an affliction, including gold images made to represent them.

The word names bodily tumors in accounts of people being struck and in a list of afflictions; the same plural noun appears in construct forms when gold images are made as representations of those tumors.

1. Bodily tumors and images representing them · dominant

   The absolute plural forms occur where people are struck: in 1 Samuel 5:6 the APB renders that the Ashdodites were struck with “tumors,” and in Deuteronomy 28:27 it places them among afflictions from which the hearer cannot be healed. The construct plural forms occur in the offering scene: in 1 Samuel 6:4 the APB renders “five gold tumors,” while 1 Samuel 6:5 speaks of making images of the tumors.

   1 Samuel 5:61 Samuel 5:91 Samuel 5:12Deuteronomy 28:271 Samuel 6:41 Samuel 6:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the noun as “tumors” when people are struck in 1 Samuel 5:6 and Deuteronomy 28:27, and as “gold tumors” or “images of your tumors” in the offering instructions of 1 Samuel 6:4 and 1 Samuel 6:5. These renderings reflect the verses' clauses.