Strong H8582תָּעָה
to go astray
- Transliteration
- tâ‛âh
- Pronunciation
- taw-aw'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; to {vacillate} that {is} reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causatively of both: - (cause to) go {astray} {deceive} {dissemble} (cause {to} make to) {err} {pant} {seduce} (make to) {stagger} (cause to) {wander} be out of the way.
Detailed definition
1) to err, wander, go astray, stagger
1a) (Qal) to err
1a1) to wander about (physically)
1a2) of intoxication
1a3) of sin (ethically)
1a4) wandering (of the mind)
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be made to wander about, be made to stagger (drunkard)
1b2) to be led astray (ethically)
1c) (Hiphil) to cause to wander
1c1) to cause to wander about (physically)
1c2) to cause to wander (of intoxication)
1c3) to cause to err, mislead (mentally and morally)
1a) (Qal) to err
1a1) to wander about (physically)
1a2) of intoxication
1a3) of sin (ethically)
1a4) wandering (of the mind)
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be made to wander about, be made to stagger (drunkard)
1b2) to be led astray (ethically)
1c) (Hiphil) to cause to wander
1c1) to cause to wander about (physically)
1c2) to cause to wander (of intoxication)
1c3) to cause to err, mislead (mentally and morally)
In the Bible
Strong H8582 appears in 45 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- err16
- wander9
- go6
- astray5
- seduce2
- deceived1
- dissemble1
- erreth1
- make1
- pant1
- seduceth1
- stagger1
First verses
- Genesis 20:13And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
- Genesis 21:14And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer–sheba.
- Genesis 37:15And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
- Exodus 23:4If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
- 2 Kings 21:9But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 33:9So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
- Job 12:24He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
- Job 12:25They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
- Job 15:31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
- Job 38:41Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
- Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
- Psalms 95:10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
- Psalms 107:4They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
- Psalms 107:40He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
- Psalms 119:110The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
- Psalms 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
- Proverbs 7:25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
- Proverbs 10:17He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
- Proverbs 12:26The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
- Proverbs 14:22Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.