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title: גָּשַׁשׁ — feel with the hand · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גָּשַׁשׁ (1659), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: feel with the hand. BDB 1906: vb. feel with the hand, feel, stroke. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גָּשַׁשׁ

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«גָּשַׁשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **feel with the hand** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 1659 · **BDB:** גשׁשׁ

### Glosses

we.grope (1); we.grope.for (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

feel with the hand [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1659/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. feel with the hand, feel, stroke [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1659/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. feel with the hand, feel, stroke (NH id., Arabic جَسَّ, Aramaic גְּשַׁשׁ Pa., ܓܰܫ; Ethiopic ገሰሰ or ገሠሠ stroke, touch)— Impf. 1 pl. coh. נְגַשֲׁשָׁה Is 59:10, נְגַשּׁ֑שָׁה ib., grope, grope for cf. Che.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גָּשַׁשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1659/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 59:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.10/)

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נְגַֽשְׁשָׁ֤ה כַֽעִוְרִים֙ קִ֔יר וּכְאֵ֥ין עֵינַ֖יִם נְגַשֵּׁ֑שָׁה כָּשַׁ֤לְנוּ בַֽצָּהֳרַ֙יִם֙ כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁף בָּאַשְׁמַנִּ֖ים כַּמֵּתִֽים׃

*Word for word:* we.grope.for like.(the) blind \[people\] a.wall and like there.\[are\].not eyes we.grope we.have.stumbled at (the) noon(s) like the twilight among the.fat people like \[those who.have\].died

*JPS 1917:* We grope for the wall like the blind, yea, as they that have no eyes do we grope; we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; we are in dark places like the dead.

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