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Strong's #4959 - מָשַׁשׁ
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- to feel, grope
- (Qal) to feel, grope
- (Piel) to feel over or through, grope
- to feel through
- to grope
- 1c)(Hiphil) to feel
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1297) sm (מסה MSh) AC: Touch CO: Silk AB: ?
A) sm (מסה MSh) AC: ? CO: Silk AB: ?: The soft touch of silk.
fm) ism (מסהי MShY) - Silk: A smooth costly material for making garments. KJV (2): silk - Strongs: H4897 (מֶשִׁי)
B) ssm (מסהסה MShSh) AC: Grope CO: ? AB: ?
V) ssm (מסהסה MShSh) - Grope: A groping around in the darkness to find something. KJV (9): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Piel) grope, feel, search - Strongs: H4959 (מָשַׁשׁ)
C) sma (אמסה AMSh) AC: ? CO: Yesterday AB: ?: A time past. [Unknown connection to root]
Nm) sma (אמסה AMSh) - Yesterday: KJV (5): yesternight, former time, yesterday - Strongs: H570 (אֶמֶשׁ)
H) esm (מסהה MShH) AC: Draw CO: ? AB: ?: A grabbing hold of something to bring it close to you.
V) esm (מסהה MShH) - Draw: To draw or pull out. KJV (3): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) draw - Strongs: H4871 (מָשָׁה)
J) sfm (מוסה MWSh) AC: Touch CO: ? AB: ?
V) sfm (מוסה MWSh) - I. Touch: II. Remove:In the sense of grabbing hold. KJV (24): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) feel, handle, depart, remove, take, back, cease - Strongs: H4184 (מוּשׁ), H4185 (מוּשׁ)
L) smi (ימסה YMSh) AC: Touch CO: ? AB: ?
V) smi (ימסה YMSh) - Touch: KJV (1): (vf: Hiphil) feel - Strongs: H3237 (יָמַשׁ)
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Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Imperfect 3 masculine singular suffix יְמֻשֵּׁנִי Genesis 27:12 perhaps my father will feel me; וַיְמֻשֵּׁהוּ Genesis 27:22 and he felt of him (both J).
Pi`el Perfect 2 masculine singular מִשַּׁשְׁתָּ; Imperfect 3 masculine singular יְמַשֵּׁשׁ Deuteronomy 28:29, וַיְמַשֵּׁשׁ Genesis 31:34; 3 masculine plural יִמַשְׁשׁוּ Job 5:4; Job 12:25; Participle מְמַשֵּׁשׁ Deuteronomy 28:29; — feel over or through, grope: —
1לָבָּן אֶתכָּֿלהָֿאֹהֶל ׳וַיְמ Genesis 31:24 and Laban felt through the whole tent (i.e. searched it); so (object כֵּלַי) Genesis 31:37 thou hast felt through all my possessions (or baggage; both E).
2 grope, of blind Deuteronomy 28:29b (in simile), periphrase conjectural, וְהָיִיתָמְמַשֵּׁשׁ Deuteronomy 28:29 a and thou shalt become one that gropes at noonday (figurative of judicial blindness); compare Job 5:14; Job 12:25.
Hiph`il Imperfect וְיָמֵשׁ חשֶׁךְ Exodus 10:21 that one may feel (the) darkness; read also Imperative suffix הֲמִשֵׁנִי (for והימשׁני, see ימשׁ, p. 413above) Judges 16:26 and let me touch the pillars (2accusative)
מִשְׁתֶּה see שׁתה. מֵת see מות. p 559,1059
מָשַׁשׁ i.q. מוּשׁ No. II. to feel, to touch, with an acc. (Arab. مَسَّ, Gr. μάσσω, Ethiop. by inserting ר, መርሰሰ፡ id.) Genesis 27:12 compare מוּשׁ V. 21 Genesis 27:21.
Piel id. to feel (in the darkness), to grope, Deuteronomy 28:29; Job 5:14 with an acc. to feel out, to explore with the hands, Genesis 31:34, 37 Genesis 31:37; Job 12:25, יְמַֽשְׁשׁוּ חשֶׁךְ “they feel the darkness.”
Hiphil id. with acc. Exodus 10:21.