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מָשַׁשׁ

mashash · feel, grope

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4959 · appears 9 times in the Bible

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What it means

mashash (מָשַׁשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “feel, grope”.

Feel, touch in order to recognize; grope; search through.

How to say it

ma·shash

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. To touch in order to recognize.
  2. To walk feeling one's way with the hands, like a blind man.
  3. To search among things.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • felt through ×2
  • they grope ×2
  • can be felt ×1
  • gropes ×1
  • groping ×1
  • he felt him ×1
  • will feel me ×1

Where it appears

  • Genesis 27:12

    Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will be in his eyes like a mocker, and I will bring on myself a curse and not a blessing.”

  • Genesis 27:22

    Jacob came near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

  • Genesis 31:34

    Now Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them in the saddle of the camel and sat on them. Laban felt through the whole tent but did not find them.

  • Genesis 31:37

    Now that you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all the goods of your house? Put it here before my brothers and your brothers, and let them decide between the two of us.

  • Exodus 10:21

    YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”

  • Deuteronomy 28:29

    And you will be groping at noon, as the blind man gropes in the darkness, and you will not prosper your ways; and you will be only oppressed and robbed all the days, and there will be no one to save you.

  • Job 5:14

    By day they meet darkness, and as at night they grope at noon.

  • Job 12:25

    They grope in darkness and without light, and he makes them wander like a drunkard.

And 1 more times.