STRONGS NUMBER H4959


Word Summary
mashash: to feel, grope
Original Word: מָשַׁשׁ
Transliteration: mashash
Phonetic Spelling: (maw-shash')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to feel, grope
Meaning: to feel of, to grope
Strong's Concordance
feel, grope, search

A primitive root; to feel of; by implication, to grope -- feel, grope, search.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4959. mashash

[מָשַׁשׁ‎] verb feel, grope (Late Hebrew id. Pi`el; Arabic feel; Ethiopic Di166; Aramaic , מְשַׁשׁ‎ Pa`el, Palpel — see also ימשׁ‎, II. מושׁ‎); —

Qal Imperfect3masculine singular suffix יְמֻשֵּׁנִיGenesis 27:12 perhaps my father will feel me; וַיְמֻשֵּׁהוּ27:22 and he felt of him (both J).

Pi`el Perfect2masculine singular מִשַּׁשְׁתָּ‎; Imperfect3masculine singular יְמַשֵּׁשׁDeuteronomy 28:29, וַיְמַשֵּׁשׁGenesis 31:34; 3masculine plural יִמַשְׁשׁוּJob 5:4; 12:25; Participle מְמַשֵּׁשׁDeuteronomy 28:29; — feel over or through, grope:

1 ׳וַיְמ אֶתכָּֿלהָֿאֹהֶל לָבָּןGenesis 31:24 and Laban felt through the whole tent (i.e. searched it); so (object כֵּלַי‎) 31:37 thou hast felt through all my possessions (or baggage; both E).

2 grope, of blind Deuteronomy 28:29b (in simile), periphrase conjectural, מְמַשֵּׁשׁ וְהָיִיתָ28:29 a and thou shalt become one that gropes at noonday (figurative of judicial blindness); compare Job 5:14; 12:25.

Hiph`il Imperfect חשֶׁךְ וְיָמֵשׁExodus 10:21 that one may feel (the) darkness; read also Imperative suffix הֲמִשֵׁנִי‎ (for והימשׁני‎, see ימשׁ‎, p. 413 above) Judges 16:26 and let me touch the pillars (2 accusative)

מִשְׁתֶּה‎ see שׁתה‎. מֵת‎ see מות‎. p 559, 1059