o.phel denotes bodily tumors inflicted as a plague and also represented in gold images.

The term denotes bodily tumors in affliction narratives and in a curse of bodily disease; it also designates the tumors when they are made as gold images in connection with a guilt offering.

1. Bodily tumors as an inflicted affliction · dominant

   In 1 Samuel 5:6 and 1 Samuel 5:12, the masculine plural absolute form occurs where people are struck and some die; the APB renders the affliction as “tumors.” In 1 Samuel 5:9, tumors “burst out” on the men of the city, and Deuteronomy 28:27 places the same plural form among bodily conditions with which the LORD will strike a person.

   1 Samuel 5:61 Samuel 5:91 Samuel 5:12Deuteronomy 28:27
2. Tumors represented by gold images · common

   In 1 Samuel 6:4 and 1 Samuel 6:5, the masculine plural construct form occurs in instructions concerning five gold items and images to be made. The APB renders the clauses “five gold tumors” and “images of your tumors,” while the surrounding context connects them with a guilt offering and a plague.

   1 Samuel 6:41 Samuel 6:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB consistently presents the affliction as “tumors,” including “tumors burst out” and “five gold tumors.” In 1 Samuel 6:5 it renders the construct phrase as “images of your tumors”; these renderings reflect the verse context.