TBESH · H4959
מָשַׁשׁ · ma.shash · to feel
1) to feel, grope 1a) (Qal) to feel, grope 1b) (Piel) to feel over or through, grope 1b1) to feel through 1b2) to grope 1c)(Hiphil) to feel
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ma.shash H4959
מָשַׁשׁ (ma.shash) means “to feel” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
מָשַׁשׁ Hebrew · H4959 9 tagged occurrences in 8 verses
Pronunciation guide: maw-shash' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root; to feel of; by implication, to grope
KJV glosses: feel, grope, search.
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How translators render H4959
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| a palpable | 1 |
| and grope | 1 |
| grope about | 1 |
| searched | 1 |
| they grope | 1 |
| touches me | 1 |
| who touched him | 1 |
| you have searched | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and grope | 1 |
| and he felt | 1 |
| and thou shalt grope | 1 |
| gropeth | 1 |
| may be felt | 1 |
| peradventure will feel | 1 |
| searched | 1 |
| they grope | 1 |
| thou hast searched | 1 |
Verses containing H4959
Page 1 of 1. 8 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 27:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
Read word by word - Genesis 27:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Read word by word - Genesis 31:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
Read word by word - Genesis 31:37
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.
Read word by word - Exodus 10:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 28:29
· BSB · 2 occurrences
and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
Read word by word - Job 5:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
Read word by word - Job 12:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
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