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Grasping [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Seizing; embracing; catching; holding.

Grasping [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Seizing; embracing; catching.

2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man.

Greed Roget’s Thesaurus §817a

N. covetousness, ravenousness &c. # adj, venality, avidity, cupidity, acquisitiveness (acquisition) 775, desire, greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion, selfishness, auri sacra fames, grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity

V. covet, crave (desire) 865, grasp, exact, extort

Adj. greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping, rapacious, lickerish, greedy as a hog, overeager, voracious, ravenous, ravenous as a wolf, openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid|, alieni appetens, insatiable, insatiate, unquenchable, quenchless, omnivorous

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0 KJV and 2 BSB verses contain “Grasping”

Genesis 25:26

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

Proverbs 27:16

Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.