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Hebrew

To feel

מוּשׁStrong’s H4184

mush

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Mush is the Hebrew word usually translated “so i may feel you”, “let feel me” and “feel”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.”
Genesis 27:21 KJV
Meaning
  1. To feel(Qal) to feel · (Hiphil) to feel
How it's translated
  • so i may feel you 1
  • and let feel me 1
  • they feel 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 1
  • Judges 1
  • Psalms 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מוּשׁ mush · to feel

1) to feel 1a) (Qal) to feel 1b) (Hiphil) to feel

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “feel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FEEL, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive felt. [Latin palpo. the primary sense is to touch, to pat, to strike gently, or to press, as is evident from the Latin palpito, and other derivatives of palp. If so, the word seems to be allied to Latin pello.]

  1. To perceive by the touch; to have sensation excited by contact of a thing with the body or limbs.“Suffer me that I may feel the pillars” Judges 16:26“Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son” Genesis 27:21
  2. To have the sense of; to suffer or enjoy; as, to feel pain; to feel pleasure.
  3. To experience; to suffer.“Whoso keepeth the commandments shall feel no evil thing” Ecclesiastes 8:5
  4. To be affected by; to perceive mentally; as, to feel grief or woe.
All definitions and other forms of “feel”
  1. To know; to be acquainted with; to have a real and just view of.
  2. To touch; to handle; with or without of.“If haply they might feel after him, and find him” Acts 17:27

FEEL, verb intransitive

  1. To have perception by the touch, or by the contact of any substance with the body.
  2. To have the sensibility or the passions moved or excited.
  3. To give perception; to excite sensation.
  4. To have perception mentally; as, to feel hurt; to feel grieved; to feel unwilling.

FEEL, noun

The sense of feeling, or the perception caused by the touch. The difference of tumors may be ascertained by the feel Argillaceous stones may sometimes be known by the feel [In America, feeling is more generally used; but the use of feel is not uncommon.]

    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.