# H4959 מָשַׁשׁ

מָשַׁשׁ (mâshash), Strong’s H4959: to feel of; by implication, to grope KJV: feel, grope, search.. Occurs 9 times.

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*mâshash* — to feel of; by implication, to grope

KJV: feel, grope, search.

Occurs 9 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 27:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=12) — 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…
- [Genesis 27:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=22) — 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…
- [Genesis 31:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=34) — Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but…
- [Genesis 31:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=37) — Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my…
- [Exodus 10:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=21) — The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even…
- [Deuteronomy 28:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=29) — You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be…
- [Job 5:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/5?v=14) — They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
- [Job 12:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/12?v=25) — They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.