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Lexicon :: Strong's G5584 - psēlaphaō

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ψηλαφάω
Transliteration
psēlaphaō (Key)
Pronunciation
psay-laf-ah'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

Trench's Synonyms: xvii. θιγγάνω, ἅπτομαι, ψηλαφάω.

Strong’s Definitions

ψηλαφάω psēlapháō, psay-laf-ah'-o; from the base of G5567 (compare G5586); to manipulate, i.e. verify by contact; figuratively, to search for:—feel after, handle, touch.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G5584 in the following manner: handle (2x), feel after (1x), touch (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G5584 in the following manner: handle (2x), feel after (1x), touch (1x).

  1. to handle, touch and feel

  2. metaph. mentally to seek after tokens of a person or a thing

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ψηλαφάω psēlapháō, psay-laf-ah'-o; from the base of G5567 (compare G5586); to manipulate, i.e. verify by contact; figuratively, to search for:—feel after, handle, touch.
STRONGS G5584:
ψηλαφάω, ψηλάφω: 1 aorist ἐψηλάφησα, optative 3 person plural ψηλαφήσειαν (Acts 17:27, the Aeolic form; see ποιέω, at the beginning); present passive participle ψηλαφωμενος; (from ψάω, to touch); to handle, touch, feel: τί or τινα, Luke 24:39; Hebrews 12:18 (see R. V. text and marginal reading, cf. Buttmann, § 134, 8; Winer's Grammar, 343 (322)); 1 John 1:1; metaphorically, mentally to seek after tokens of a person or thing: θεόν, Acts 17:27 (A. V. feel after). (Homer, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Polybius, Philo, Plutarch; often for מוּשׁ, הֵמִישׁ, מִשֵּׁשׁ.) [SYNONYMS: see ἅπτω, 2 c.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Luke
24:39
Acts
17:27; 17:27
Hebrews
12:18
1 John
1:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5584 matches the Greek ψηλαφάω (psēlaphaō),
which occurs 15 times in 13 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - Peradventure my father may feel me, and I shall be before him as one ill-intentioned, and I shall bring upon me a curse, and not a blessing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - And Isaac said to Jacob, Draw nigh to me, and I will feel thee, son, if thou art my son Esau or not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - And Jacob drew nigh to his father Isaac, and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29 - And thou shalt grope at mid-day, as a blind man would grope in the darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and then thou shalt be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - And Sampson said to the young man that held his hand, Suffer me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, and I will stay myself upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 - In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - Let them grope in darkness, and let there be no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:7 - (LXX 113:15) they have hands, but they cannot handle; they have feet, but they cannot walk: they cannot speak through their throat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:17 - (LXX 134:17) they have ears, but they cannot hear; for there is no breath in their mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:10 - They shall feel for the wall as blind men, and shall feel for it as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:1 - O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be handled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:9 - For as for the stone which I have set before the face of Jesus, on the one stone are seven eyes: behold, I am digging a trench, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will search out all the iniquity of that land in one day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:13 - For I have bent thee, O Juda, for myself as a bow, I have filled [fn]Ephraim; and I will raise up thy children, O Sion, against the children of the Greeks, and I will handle thee as the sword of a warrior.
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