גָּשַׁשׁ gâshash — to feel about
Translated in the KJV as grope.
a primitive root; apparently; to feel about.
gâshash in each stem
Pi'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
נְגַֽשְׁשָׁ֤ה Isa 59:10 Imperfect (yiqtol), 1st person common plural
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›