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# 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1659/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גשׁשׁ: vb. feel with the hand, feel, stroke [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1659/#m2)

**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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.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.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1659.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1659/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).