גָּשַׁשׁ

«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.

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

Glosses

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

Meaning (OSHB)

feel with the hand tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. feel with the hand, feel, stroke tree →

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.

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Isaiah 59:10

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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