Genesis 27:12
My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
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Feel
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Acts 17:27
That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
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יָדַע
yâdaʻ · yaw-dah'
2 times translated as this KJV form941 total Strong's occurrences
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-) awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, × could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-) norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, be learned, lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, × prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), × will be, wist, wit, wot.
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Strong's first: Job 20:20Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 8:5
Open full H3045 profile →מוּשׁ
mûwsh · moosh
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to touch
Strong's KJV usage: feel, handle.
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Strong's first: Genesis 27:21Strong's last: Judges 16:26
Open full H4184 profile →בִּין
bîyn · bene
1 times translated as this KJV form169 total Strong's occurrences
to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand
Strong's KJV usage: attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill(-full), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand(-ing), view, (deal) wise(-ly, man).
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Strong's first: Psalms 58:9Strong's last: Psalms 58:9
Open full H995 profile →מָשַׁשׁ
mâshash · maw-shash'
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to feel of; by implication, to grope
Strong's KJV usage: feel, grope, search.
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Strong's first: Genesis 27:12Strong's last: Genesis 27:12
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That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
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feel
FEEL, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive felt. [Latin palpo. the primary sense is to touch, to pat, to strike gently, or to press, as is evident from the Latin palpito, and other derivatives of palp. If so, the word seems to be allied to Latin pello.]
1. To perceive by the touch; to have sensation excited by contact of a thing with the body or limbs.
Suffer me that I may feel the pillars. Judges 16:26.
Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son.
Genesis 27:12.
2. To have the sense of; to suffer or enjoy; as, to feel pain; to feel pleasure.
3. To experience; to suffer.
Whoso keepeth the commandments shall feel no evil thing. Ecclesiastes 8:5.
4. To be affected by; to perceive mentally; as, to feel grief or woe.
Would I had never trod this English earth, or felt the flatteies that grow upon it.
5. To know; to be acquainted with; to have a real and just view of.
For then, and not till then, he felt himself.
6. To touch; to handle; with or without of.
FEEL this piece of silk, or feel of it.
To feel or to feel out, is to try; to sound; to search for; to explore; as, to feel or feel out one's opinions or designs.
To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark.
If haply they might feel after him, and find him. Acts 18:1.
FEEL, verb intransitive
1. To have perception by the touch, or by the contact of any substance with the body.
2. To have the sensibility or the passions moved or excited. The good man feels for the woes of others.
3. To give perception; to excite sensation.
Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth.
So, we say, a thing feels soft or hard, or it feels hot or cold.
4. To have perception mentally; as, to feel hurt; to feel grieved; to feel unwilling.
FEEL, noun The sense of feeling, or the perception caused by the touch. The difference of tumors may be ascertained by the feel Argillaceous stones may sometimes be known by the feel [In America, feeling is more generally used; but the use of feel is not uncommon.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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