# מָשַׁשׁ (mashash)

Israeli respelling: ma-shash. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4959. 8 Old Testament occurrences.

to feel of; by implication, to grope

King James renderings: feel, grope, search.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/mashash-h4959

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 27:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/27/12) — My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
- [Genesis 27:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/27/22) — And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
- [Genesis 31:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/34) — Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them…
- [Genesis 31:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/37) — Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren,…
- [Exodus 10:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/10/21) — And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which…
- [Deuteronomy 28:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/29) — And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed…
- [Job 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/14) — They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
- [Job 12:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/12/25) — They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.