mashash (to feel)

Meaning

To feel, grope(Qal) to feel, grope · (Piel) to feel over or through, grope · (Hiphil) to feel

How it's translated

they grope 2
he will feel me 1
and he felt him 1
and he searched 1
you have searched 1
so they may feel 1
groping 1
he gropes 1

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

Where it's used most

Genesis 4
Job 2
Exodus 1
Deuteronomy 1

4 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Genesis 27:22And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Genesis 31:34Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.
Genesis 31:37Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
Exodus 10:21And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
Deuteronomy 28:29And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
Job 5:14They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

All 8 verses, by book

Genesis 4: 27:12 27:22 31:34 31:37
Exodus 1: 10:21
Deuteronomy 1: 28:29
Job 2: 5:14 12:25

Hebrew dictionary

מָשַׁשׁ mashash · to feel

1) to feel, grope 1a) (Qal) to feel, grope 1b) (Piel) to feel over or through, grope 1b1) to feel through 1b2) to grope 1c)(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.]

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
To have the sense of; to suffer or enjoy; as, to feel pain; to feel pleasure.
To experience; to suffer.“Whoso keepeth the commandments shall feel no evil thing” Ecclesiastes 8:5
To be affected by; to perceive mentally; as, to feel grief or woe.

All definitions and other forms of “feel”

To know; to be acquainted with; to have a real and just view of.
To touch; to handle; with or without of.“If haply they might feel after him, and find him” Acts 17:27

FEEL, verb intransitive

To have perception by the touch, or by the contact of any substance with the body.
To have the sensibility or the passions moved or excited.
To give perception; to excite sensation.
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.