{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4959",
  "lemma": "מָשַׁשׁ",
  "transliteration": "mâshash",
  "definition": "to feel of; by implication, to grope",
  "kjv": "feel, grope, search.",
  "occurrences": 9,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[מָשַׁשׁ] vb. feel, grope",
    "Qal perhaps my father will feel me; and he felt of him",
    "Pi. feel over or through, grope",
    "Hiph. that one may feel (the) darkness"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 27:12",
      "text": "What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 27:22",
      "text": "Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 31:34",
      "text": "Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=34"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 31:37",
      "text": "Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=37"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 10:21",
      "text": "The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 28:29",
      "text": "You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Job 5:14",
      "text": "They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/5?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Job 12:25",
      "text": "They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/12?v=25"
    }
  ],
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