- ψηλαφάω
- ψηλαφάω (cp. ψάλλω and ἀφάω [=ἁφάω] ‘feel, handle’) fut. ψηλαφήσω LXX; 1 aor. ἐψηλάφησα; fut. pass. 3 sg. ψηλαφηθήσεται Na 3:1 (Hom. et al.; Polyb. 8, 18, 4; PLond IV, 1396, 4 [709/14 A.D.]; LXX; Jos., Ant. 13, 262 v.l.; Mel., P. 22, 151 al.) ‘feel (about for), grope after’① to touch by feeling and handling, touch, handle, τινά or τὶ someone or someth. (Gen 27:12; Judg 16:26 al.) ψηλαφήσατέ με Lk 24:39; ISm 3:2. Cp. 1J 1:1. λίθον Hs 9, 6, 3. In οὐ προσεληλύθατε ψηλαφωμένῳ Hb 12:18, even if the v.l. ὄρει is dropped, the reference is to Mt. Sinai, where God gave a self-revelation according to the OT with manifestations that could be felt or touched, were tangible (ESelwyn, On ψηλ. in Hb 12:18: JTS 12, 1911, 133f).—In imagery (Polyb. 8, 18, 4) πάντα τόπον ἐψηλαφήσαμεν we have touched upon every subject 1 Cl 62:2.② to look for someth. in uncertain fashion, to feel around for, grope for, in imagery of humans in their search for God (cp. Philo, Mut. Nom. 126 ψ. τὰ θεῖα) εἰ ἄρα γε ψηλαφήσειαν αὐτὸν καὶ εὕροιεν if perhaps (=in the hope that) they might grope for him and find him Ac 17:27 (Norden, Agn. Th. 14–18; BGärtner, The Areopagus Speech ’55, 161).—B. 1061. Cp. θιγγάνω: Schmidt, Syn. I 225–43. DELG. LfgrE s.v. ἁφάω. M-M. EDNT.
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