גָּשַׁשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1659

feel with the hand — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

feel with the hand tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גשׁשׁ: vb. feel with the hand, feel, stroke tree →

The whole BDB entry

vb. feel with the hand, feel, stroke (NH id., Arabic جَسَّ, Aramaic גְּשַׁשׁ Pa., ܓܰܫ; Ethiopic ገሰሰ or ገሠሠ stroke, touch)— Impf. 1 pl. coh. נְגַשֲׁשָׁה Is 59:10, נְגַשּׁ֑שָׁה ib., grope, grope for cf. Che.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: we grope (1); we grope for (1).

In the verses

Isaiah 59:10 · tree →

נְגַֽשְׁשָׁ֤ה כַֽעִוְרִים֙ קִ֔יר וּכְאֵ֥ין עֵינַ֖יִם נְגַשֵּׁ֑שָׁה כָּשַׁ֤לְנוּ בַֽצָּהֳרַ֙יִם֙ כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁף בָּאַשְׁמַנִּ֖ים כַּמֵּתִֽים׃

Word for word: we.grope.for like.(the) blind [people] a.wall and like there.[are].not eyes we.grope we.have.stumbled at (the) noon(s) like the twilight among the.fat people like [those who.have].died

JPS 1917: We grope for the wall like the blind, yea, as they that have no eyes do we grope; we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; we are in dark places like the dead.

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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