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Handle

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Greek G1315 diacheirízomai

Original: διαχειρίζομαι

Meaning:
from διά and a derivative of χείρ; to handle thoroughly, i.e. lay violent hands upon:--kill, slay.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to handle thoroughly, i.e. lay violent hands upon:--kill, slay.

Greek G4400 procheirízomai

Original: προχειρίζομαι

Meaning:
middle voice from πρό and a derivative of χείρ; to handle for oneself in advance, i.e. (figuratively) to purpose:--choose, make.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to handle for oneself in advance, i.e. (figuratively) to purpose:--choose, make.

Greek G5584 psēlapháō

Original: ψηλαφάω

Meaning:
from the base of ψάλλω (compare ψῆφος); to manipulate, i.e. verify by contact; figuratively, to search for:--feel after, handle, touch.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: figuratively, to search for:--feel after, handle, touch.

Hebrew H270 ʼâchaz

Original: אָחַז

Meaning:
a primitive root; to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession); [phrase] be affrighted, bar, (catch, lay, take) hold (back), come upon, fasten, handle, portion, (get, have or take) possess(-ion).

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: [phrase] be affrighted, bar, (catch, lay, take) hold (back), come upon, fasten, handle, portion, (get, have or take) possess(-ion).

Hebrew H4184 mûwsh

Original: מוּשׁ

Meaning:
a primitive root; to touch; feel, handle.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: feel, handle.

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Hebrew H4900 mâshak

Original: מָשַׁךְ

Meaning:
a primitive root; to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.); draw (along, out), continue, defer, extend, forbear, [idiom] give, handle, make (pro-, sound) long, [idiom] sow, scatter, stretch out.

Hebrew H6186 ʻârak

Original: עָרַךְ

Meaning:
a primitive root; to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications); put (set) (the battle, self) in array, compare, direct, equal, esteem, estimate, expert (in war), furnish, handle, join (battle), ordain, (lay, put, reckon up, set) (in) order, prepare, tax, value.

Hebrew H8610 tâphas

Original: תָּפַשׂ

Meaning:
a primitive root; to manipulate, i.e. seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably; catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, [idiom] surely, surprise, take.

Verses containing this word showing 10 of 10

^{Genesis 4:21} And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. Open

^{Judges 5:14} Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. Open

^{1 Chronicles 12:8} And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains; Open

^{2 Chronicles 25:5} Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield. Open

^{Psalm 115:7} They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. Open

^{Jeremiah 2:8} The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. Open

^{Jeremiah 46:9} Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow. Open

^{Ezekiel 27:29} And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; Open

^{Luke 24:39} 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. Open

^{Colossians 2:21} (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Open

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