Hebrew verb · H1659
גָּשַׁשׁ
gashashgaw-shash'
to grope
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gâshash
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1659is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1659
to feel about
The King James renders it: grope.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
gashash is rendered "to grope". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 59:10Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
Isaiah 59:10נְגַֽשְׁשָׁ֤ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- we grope1
- we grope for1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גָּשַׁם | gasham | to rain | Uses1 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- נְגַֽשְׁשָׁ֤ה1
- נְגַשֵּׁ֑שָׁה1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common plural2HVpc1cp
Isaiah
two uses
Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
- נְגַֽשְׁשָׁ֤הnegashahverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we grope for
- נְגַשֵּׁ֑שָׁהnegasheshahverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we grope
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.