Original Word: ψηλαφάω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: psélaphaó
Phonetic Spelling: (psay-laf-ah'-o)
Short Definition: I feel, touch, handle, grope for
Definition: I feel, touch, handle; I feel after, grope for.

5584 psēlapháō – properly, touch lightly, "feel after" to discover (personally investigate).

[5584 (psēlapháō) comes from a root meaning, "to rub, wipe"; hence, to feel on the surface (see Gen 27:12,21,22 in the LXX).]

STRONGS NT 5584: ψηλαφάω

ψηλαφάω, ψηλάφω: 1 aorist ἐψηλάφησα, optative 3 person plural ψηλαφήσειαν (Acts 17:27, the Aeolic form; see ποιέω, at the beginning); present passive participle ψηλαφωμενος; (from ψάω, to touch); to handle, touch, feel: τί or τινα, Luke 24:39; Hebrews 12:18 (see R. V. text and marginal reading, cf. Buttmann, § 134, 8; Winer's Grammar, 343 (322)); 1 John 1:1; metaphorically, mentally to seek after tokens of a person or thing: θεόν, Acts 17:27 (A. V. feel after). (Homer, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Polybius, Philo, Plutarch; often for מוּשׁ, הֵמִישׁ, מִשֵּׁשׁ.) [SYNONYMS: see ἅπτω, 2 c.]

Strong's Greek 5584
4 Occurrences

ἐψηλάφησαν — 1 Occ.
ψηλαφήσατέ — 1 Occ.
ψηλαφήσειαν — 1 Occ.
ψηλαφωμένῳ — 1 Occ.

Luke 24:39 V-AMA-2P
GRK: εἰμι αὐτός ψηλαφήσατέ με καὶ
NAS: that it is I Myself; touch Me and see,
KJV: I myself: handle me, and
INT: am he Touch me and

Acts 17:27 V-AOA-3P
GRK: ἄρα γε ψηλαφήσειαν αὐτὸν καὶ
NAS: perhaps they might grope for Him and find
KJV: haply they might feel after him,
INT: perhaps indeed they might feel after him and

Hebrews 12:18 V-PPM/P-DNS
GRK: γὰρ προσεληλύθατε ψηλαφωμένῳ καὶ κεκαυμένῳ
NAS: For you have not come to [a mountain] that can be touched and to a blazing
KJV: unto the mount that might be touched, and
INT: indeed you have come to being touched and having been kindled

1 John 1:1 V-AIA-3P
GRK: χεῖρες ἡμῶν ἐψηλάφησαν περὶ τοῦ
NAS: we have looked at and touched with our hands,
KJV: our hands have handled, of the Word
INT: hands of us handled concerning the

4 Occurrences