Grope
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Deuteronomy 28:29
- Last Reference: Isaiah 59:10
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Grope
GROPE, verb intransitive
1. To feel along; to search or attempt to find in the dark, or as a blind person, by feeling.
We grope for the wall like the blind. Isaiah 59:10.
The dying believer leaves the weeping children of mortality to grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life.
2. To seek blindly in intellectual darkness, without a certain guide or means of knowledge.
GROPE, verb transitive To search by feeling in the dark.
We groped our way at midnight.
But Strephon, cautious, never meant
The bottom of the pan to grope
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Groper
GRO'PER, noun One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.