θιγγάνω thingánō

Meaning

to manipulate, i.e. have to do with; by implication, to injure

In the King James Version: handle, touch

Derivation: a prolonged form of an obsolete primary (to finger);

Where it is used

• Colossians 2:21 “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?
• Hebrews 11:28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.
• Hebrews 12:20 For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”