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מוּשׁ mûwsh — to touch
pronounced moosh · Strong's H4184 · 3 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 2 stems: Hiph'il, Qal (Pa'al)
Translated in the KJV as feel, handle.
a primitive root; to touch.
mûwsh in each stem
Hiph'il 2×
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Imperative 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
וַהֲמִשֵׁ֨נִי֙Judg 16:26Imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them. (KJV)
יְמִישׁ֗וּןPs 115:7Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. (KJV)
Qal (Pa'al) 1×
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Cohortative 1
וַאֲמֻֽשְׁךָ֖Gen 27:21Cohortative, 1st person common singular
And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. (KJV)
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 ›
In the app, tap any Hebrew verb while reading: its root, stem and form are named, the letters of the word itself are coloured to show which is which, and the stem's meaning is put in plain English. mûwsh in the lexicon ›
Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.
