[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/feel/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [F](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/f/) / feel # feel verb (feel, feels, felt, feeling); noun (a feel — the way something feels) «feel» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. To notice something with your body, for example by touching it: "Feel how soft this is." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/#m1) 2. To have an emotion or a state in your body: to feel happy, tired, sick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/#m2) 3. To seem a certain way when touched or experienced: "The water feels cold." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/#m3) 4. To think or believe: "I feel that we should help." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/#m4) ### In the lessons In science, touch is one of the senses: we feel heat, cold, pain and pressure with our skin. In everyday life and safety, feelings tell us about ourselves: if something feels wrong or you feel unsafe, tell a trusted adult. In stories, "felt" shows a character's emotions. Phrases: feel like (want), feel better, feel sorry for, feel free, feel sick. ### Examples - I feel happy today. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/#x1) - Feel the bark of this tree. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/#x2) - The ice felt cold in my hand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/#x3) - Do you feel better now? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/#x4) - I feel like eating pizza. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/#x5) - She felt sorry for the lost puppy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/#x6) - If you feel unsafe, tell an adult. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/#x7) - My legs feel tired after the race. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/#x8) - Yet he did not feel happy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/#x9) ### Note Past is "felt" (not "feeled"). After "feel" use an adjective, not an adverb: "I feel good/bad", not "I feel badly". "Feel like + -ing" means want to. Feelings can be big but they pass; it is fine to talk about them. ## In Jewish tradition Interpretation: Isaac, who is blind, wants to feel Jacob to test whether he is Esau. Tradition notes Jacob's fear of a curse and sees the deception as part of the long story of the blessing. In later books to "feel" can mean to find by touch, as blind Samson feels the pillars, or to suffer something, as in "that they may feel it" for a punishment felt by the people. In the primary lessons: In science, touch is one of the senses: we feel heat, cold, pain and pressure with our skin. In everyday life and safety, feelings tell us about ourselves: if something feels wrong or you feel unsafe, tell a trusted adult. In stories, "felt" shows a character's emotions. Phrases: feel like (want), feel better, feel sorry for, feel free, feel sick. ### Examples - 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.' (Torah GEN.27.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/feel/#x1) - My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a mocker; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.' (Torah GEN.27.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/feel/#x2) - Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike. (Writings PSA.58.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/feel/#x3) - For thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it. (Prophets JER.10.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/feel/#x4) - And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand: 'Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house resteth, that I may lean upon them.' (Prophets JDG.16.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/feel/#x5) ### Note Past is "felt" (not "feeled"). After "feel" use an adjective, not an adverb: "I feel good/bad", not "I feel badly". "Feel like + -ing" means want to. Feelings can be big but they pass; it is fine to talk about them. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «feel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feel/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«feel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/feel.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «feel» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/feel/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«feel» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/feel.html) on Mova free.