מָשַׁשׁ

ma.shashto feelHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb9 occurrences4 books8 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to feel of; by implication, to grope
Traditional renderings: feel, grope, search.

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

9 total
  1. Genesis 27:12יְמֻשֵּׁ֙נִי֙ · touches me
    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.”
  2. Genesis 27:22וַיְמֻשֵּׁ֑הוּ · who touched him
    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.”
  3. Genesis 31:34וַיְמַשֵּׁ֥שׁ · searched
    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.
  4. Genesis 31:37מִשַּׁ֣שְׁתָּ · You have searched
    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.
  5. Exodus 10:21וְיָמֵ֖שׁ · a palpable
    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.”
  6. Deuteronomy 28:29מְמַשֵּׁ֣שׁ · grope about; יְמַשֵּׁ֤שׁ
    …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.
  7. Job 5:14יְֽמַשְׁשׁ֥וּ · and grope
    They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
  8. Job 12:25יְמַֽשְׁשׁוּ־ · They grope
    They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.