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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 Box Gen 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29 - and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.[fn] And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 - They meet with darkness in the daytime
and grope at noonday as in the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - They grope in the dark without light,
and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 115:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:7 - They have hands, but do not feel;
feet, but do not walk;
and they do not make a sound in their throat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 135:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:17 - they have ears, but do not hear,
nor is there any breath in their mouths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:10 - We grope for the wall like the blind;
we grope like those who have no eyes;
we stumble at noon as in the twilight,
among those in full vigor we are like dead men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:1 - Woe to the bloody city,
all full of lies and plunder—
no end to the prey!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:9 - For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes,[fn] I will engrave its inscription, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:13 - For I have bent Judah as my bow;
I have made Ephraim its arrow.
I will stir up your sons, O Zion,
against your sons, O Greece,
and wield you like a warrior’s sword.
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