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Job 12:25
“They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
מָשַׁשׁmâshash · maw-shash'
H4959 · Hebrew
H4959 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to feel of; by implication, to grope
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- feel, grope, search.
- Grammar
- יְמַֽשְׁשׁוּ — verb Piel, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 9 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 27:12Genesis 27:22Genesis 31:34Genesis 31:37Exodus 10:21
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מָשַׁשׁ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.