Hebrew verb · H4959
מָשַׁשׁ
mashashmaw-shash'
to feel
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâshash
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4959is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4959
to feel of; by implication, to grope
The King James renders it: feel, grope, search.
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
mashash is rendered "to feel". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 27:12What 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.”
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
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.”
Genesis 27:12יְמֻשֵּׁ֙נִי֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's nine uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- they grope2
- and he felt him1
- and he searched1
- groping1
- he gropes1
- he will feel me1
- so they may feel1
- you have searched1
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.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- וְיָמֵ֖שׁ1
- וַיְמֻשֵּׁ֑הוּ1
- וַיְמַשֵּׁ֥שׁ1
- יְמֻשֵּׁ֙נִי֙1
- יְמַשֵּׁ֤שׁ1
- יְֽמַשְׁשׁ֥וּ1
- יְמַֽשְׁשׁוּ־1
- מְמַשֵּׁ֣שׁ1
- מִשַּׁ֣שְׁתָּ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVpi3mp
- HC/Vhu3ms1HC/Vhu3ms
- Hc/Vpw3ms1Hc/Vpw3ms
- Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpp2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HVprmsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVqi3ms/Sp1bs
Genesis
four uses
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.”
- יְמֻשֵּׁ֙נִי֙yemusheniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he will feel me
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.”
- וַיְמֻשֵּׁ֑הוּvaymushehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he felt him
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.
- וַיְמַשֵּׁ֥שׁvaymasheshHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he 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.
- מִשַּׁ֣שְׁתָּmishashtaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have searched
Exodus
one use
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.”
- וְיָמֵ֖שׁveyameshHC/Vhu3mstagged: so they may feel
Deuteronomy
two uses
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.
- מְמַשֵּׁ֣שׁmemasheshverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: groping
- יְמַשֵּׁ֤שׁyemasheshverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he gropes
Job
two uses
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
- יְֽמַשְׁשׁ֥וּyemashuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they grope
They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
- יְמַֽשְׁשׁוּ־yemashu-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they 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.