Rashi on Tanakh1 Samuel 19

Next to my father. Near my father; en ses aises in O.F.

Michal took. So that they would not realize that he fled, and pursue him.

A manlike figure. Made in the likeness of a human body.

A goatskin. A hide skinned in one piece, like a skin bottle. Flocele in O.F.

She put…at its head. Because the manlike figure has no hair, and this resembles human hair.

He said to me… You delivered me into the hands of a bandit.¹She placed the blame for Dovid’s escape on Shaul. He drew his sword at me until I let him leave.

In Nayos. In the house of study.²Radak explains that נָיוֹת is derived from the word נָוֶה [=beauty], referring to the Beis Hamikdosh, which is the beauty of the world. They were sitting in Romoh engaged and seeking a location for the Beis Hamikdosh, the beauty of the world.

A group of. A company.³The letters לַהֲקַת are transposed from קהלת [=a group or company]; קָהָל includes the entire group and חֶבֶל [Above 10:5] means only part of the group—Malbim.

He too removed his garments. His royal garments, to put on his students' garments.

He fell down stripped. Targum Yonoson renders וּנְפַל בִּרְשַׁן 'and he fell naked.' And in the name of R. Menachem, who heard from an Arab, בִּרְשָׁן in Arabic [means] insane.