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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 -

“Suppose my father touches me. Then I will be revealed to him as a deceiver and bring a curse rather than a blessing on myself.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 -

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau or not? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 -

So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29 -

“so that at noon you will grope as a blind person gropes in the dark. You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 -

Samson said to the young man who was leading him by the hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 -

They encounter darkness by day,

and they grope at noon

as if it were night.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 -

They grope around in darkness without light;

he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:7 -

They have hands but cannot feel,

feet, but cannot walk.

They cannot make a sound with their throats.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:17 -

They have ears but cannot hear;

indeed, there is no breath in their mouths.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:10 -

We grope along a wall like the blind;

we grope like those without eyes.

We stumble at noon as though it were twilight;

we are like the dead among those who are healthy.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:1 -

Woe to the city of blood,

totally deceitful,

full of plunder,

never without prey.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:9 -

“Notice the stone I have set before Joshua; on that one stone are seven eyes. I will engrave an inscription on it” ​— ​this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies ​— ​“and I will take away the iniquity of this land in a single day.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:13 -

For I will bend Judah as my bow;

I will fill that bow with Ephraim.

I will rouse your sons, Zion,

against your sons, Greece.[fn]

I will make you like a warrior’s sword.

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