מָשַׁשׁmâshash

feel, grope

Pronunciation: maw-shash' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4959

Meanings

Qal: feel (Genesis 27:12; Genesis 27:22)

Pi`el: feel over or through, grope (Deuteronomy 28:29; Genesis 31:34; Job 5:4)

1. and Laban felt through the whole tent, thou hast felt through (Genesis 31:24; Genesis 31:37)

2. grope (Deuteronomy 28:29; Job 5:14; Job 12:25)

Hiph`il: feel, touch (Exodus 10:21; Judges 16:26)

Where it appears

Appears 9 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 27:12 What if my father touches me? He’ll see that I’m trying to trick him, and then he’ll curse me instead of blessing me.”
  • Genesis 27:22 So Jacob went closer to his father, and Isaac touched him. “The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s,” Isaac said.
  • Genesis 31:34 But Rachel had taken the household idols and hidden them in her camel saddle, and now she was sitting on them. When Laban had thoroughly searched her tent without finding them,
  • Genesis 31:37 You have rummaged through everything I own. Now show me what you found that belongs to you! Set it out here in front of us, before our relatives, for all to see. Let them judge between us!
  • Exodus 10:21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Lift your hand toward heaven, and the land of Egypt will be covered with a darkness so thick you can feel it.”
  • Deuteronomy 28:29 You will grope around in broad daylight like a blind person groping in the darkness, but you will not find your way. You will be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will come to save you.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).