Rashi, on Prov 26:22

“The words of a talebearer are as it were simple, but they reach to the innermost parts of the belly.”

“as though waging battle Heb. כמתלהמים, an expression of מתלחמים. Our Sages however, explained כמתלהמים, כמתלהם, like death to them. The words of the spies became their death. the innermost parts of the body lit. they go down into the chambers of the stomach. This is the death of dropsy.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.