Forms of the word

Dictionary
ψηλαφάω
Greek transliteration
psēlaphaō
Simplified transliteration
pselaphao

Numbers

Strong's number
5584
GK Number
6027

Statistics

Frequency in New Testament
4
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
v-1d(1a)
Gloss
to touch, handle
Definition
to feel, handle,

, Lk. 24:39; to feel or grope for or after, as persons in the dark, Acts 17:27; Heb. 12:18; 1 Jn. 1:1*

Greek-English Concordance for ψηλαφάω

Luke 24:39 Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch (psēlaphēsate | ψηλαφήσατε | aor act imperative 2 pl) me and see, for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
Acts 17:27 that they should seek God, if perhaps that they might grope (psēlaphēseian | ψηλαφήσειαν | aor act opt 3 pl) for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from each one of us.
Hebrews 12:18 For you have not come to something that can be touched (psēlaphōmenō | ψηλαφωμένῳ | pres pass ptcp dat sg neut), to a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a whirlwind;
1 John 1:1 That which has existed from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and our hands have touched (epsēlaphēsan | ἐψηλάφησαν | aor act ind 3 pl), concerning the word of life —

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