Pselaphao means “manipulate” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5584 — caah (“storm”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5584 ψηλαφάω (pselaphao) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pselaphao (psay-laf-ah'-o) v. 1. to manipulate, i.e. verify by contact 2. (figuratively) to search for It has 17 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include handle, feel, and touched. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
pselaphao (psay-laf-ah'-o) v. 1. to manipulate, i.e. verify by contact 2. (figuratively) to search for [from the base of G5567] KJV: feel after, handle, touch Root(s): G5567 Compare: G5586
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to touch
Usage: ψηλαφάω, -ῶ (ψάω, to touch), [in LXX for מוּשׁ, מָשַׁשׁ pi., etc. ;] __1. to feel or grope about; with accusative, to feel about for, search after: metaphorically, of seeking God, Act.17:27. __2. to feel, touch, handle: with accusative of person(s), Luk.24:39, 1Jn.1:1; προσεληλύθατε ψηλαφωμένῳ (ὄρει ?), Heb.12:18 (R, txt., a mount that might be touched; mg., a palpable and kindled fire; see Westc., in l).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pselaphao, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5584 (ψηλαφάω) appears 15 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
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:
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
13 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Peradventure my father may feel me, and I shall be before him as one ill intentioned, and I shall bring upon me a curse, and not a blessing.
And Isaac said to Jacob, Draw nigh to me, and I will feel thee, son, if thou art my son Esau or not.
And Jacob drew nigh to his father Isaac, and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5584.
Peradventure my father may feel me, and I shall be before him as one ill intentioned, and I shall bring upon me a curse, and not a blessing.
And Isaac said to Jacob, Draw nigh to me, and I will feel thee, son, if thou art my son Esau or not.
And Jacob drew nigh to his father Isaac, and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
And thou shalt grope at midday, as a blind man would grope in the darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and then thou shalt be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.
And Samson said to the young man that held his hand, Suffer me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, and I will stay myself upon them.
In the day darkness shall come upon them, And let them grope in the noonday even as in the night:
Let them grope in darkness, and let there be no light, And let them wander as a drunken man.
They have hands, but they cannot handle; They have feet, but they cannot walk: They cannot speak through their throat.
They have ears, but they cannot hear; For there is no breath in their mouth.
They shall feel for the wall as blind men, and shall feel for it as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noonday as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.
O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be handled.
For as for the stone which I have set before the face of Joshua, on the one stone are seven eyes: behold, I am digging a trench, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will search out all the iniquity of that land in one day.
For I have bent thee, O Judah, for myself as a bow, I have filled Ephraim; and I will raise up thy children, O Zion, against the children of the Greeks, and I will handle thee as the sword of a warrior.
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
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:
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5584, grouped by book.
Pselaphao (Strong's G5584) is a Greek word most simply glossed "manipulate". pselaphao (psay-laf-ah'-o) v. 1. to manipulate, i.e. verify by contact 2. (figuratively) to search for
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's G5584 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5584 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as handle, feel, and touched. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 13 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G5584, with linked reader references where each row is available.