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# מוּשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4184

**feel** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

feel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4184/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוּשׁ²: vb. feel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4184/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. feel (NH id.; Aramaic ܡܳܫ, מוּשׁ id.; secondary form of משׁשׁ q.v.);— Impf. 1 s. sf. וַאֲמֻֽשְׁךָ Gn 27:21 draw near that I may feel thee. Impf. 3 mpl. יְדֵיהֶם וְלֹא יְמִישׁוּן ψ 115:7 as for their hands, they do not feel (of idols; ‖ רַגְלֵיהֶם וְלֹא יְהַלֵּ֑כוּ); Imv. sf. וַהֲמִישֵׁנִי Ju 16:26 Qr (Kt והימשׁני, v. ימשׁ), but read וַהֲמִשֵּׁנִי, v. משׁשׁ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: let (1); that (1); they (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 115:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.115.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.115.7/#tree)

יְדֵיהֶ֤ם ׀ וְלֹ֬א יְמִישׁ֗וּן רַ֭גְלֵיהֶם וְלֹ֣א יְהַלֵּ֑כוּ לֹֽא־יֶ֝הְגּ֗וּ בִּגְרוֹנָֽם׃

*Word for word:* hands their and not they feel feet their and not they.walk not they.make.a.sound with throat their

*JPS 1917:* They have hands, but they handle not; feet have they, but they walk not; neither speak they with their throat.

[Genesis 27:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.21/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יִצְחָק֙ אֶֽל־יַעֲקֹ֔ב גְּשָׁה־נָּ֥א וַאֲמֻֽשְׁךָ֖ בְּנִ֑י הַֽאַתָּ֥ה זֶ֛ה בְּנִ֥י עֵשָׂ֖ו אִם־לֹֽא׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Isaac to Jacob draw near please so that I.may.feel.you my.son my \[are\] you? this son my Esau or? not

*JPS 1917:* And Isaac said unto Jacob: 'Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4184.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4184/): 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).