To grope
גָּשַׁשׁStrong’s H1659gashash (ga-shash)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Gashash is the Hebrew word usually translated “we grope for” and “we grope”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.”
Meaning
- To feel with the hand, grope, stroke, feel(Piel) to grope, grope for, feel with the hand
How it's translated
- we grope for 1
- we grope 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
גָּשַׁשׁ gashash · to grope
1) to feel with the hand, grope, stroke, feel 1a) (Piel) to grope, grope for, feel with the hand
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grope” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GROPE, verb intransitive
- To feel along; to search or attempt to find in the dark, or as a blind person, by feeling.“We grope for the wall like the blind” Isaiah 59:10
- To seek blindly in intellectual darkness, without a certain guide or means of knowledge.
All definitions and other forms of “grope”
GROPE, verb transitive
To search by feeling in the dark.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.