H8582: תָּעָה
tâʻâh · pronounced taw-aw' · “to go astray”
Definition
to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both
KJV translates it as: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
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)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H8582 is translated
- them ×7
- went astray ×3
- they went astray ×3
- they will wander about ×2
- i have gone astray ×2
- they have misled ×2
- they staggered ×2
- they caused to err ×2
- they caused to wander ×1
- she wandered ×1
- he was wandering ×1
- wandering off ×1
Bible verses with H8582 (tâʻâh)
Tâʻâh appears in 45 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 20:13
And 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 21:14
And 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 37:15
And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
- Exodus 23:4
If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
- 2 Kings 21:9
But 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 33:9
So 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 12:24
He 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 12:25
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
- Job 15:31
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
- Job 38:41
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
- Psalms 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
- Psalms 95:10
Forty 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 107:4
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
- Psalms 107:40
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
- Psalms 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
- Psalms 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
- Proverbs 7:25
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
- Proverbs 10:17
He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
- Proverbs 12:26
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
- Proverbs 14:22
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
- Proverbs 21:16
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
- Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
- Isaiah 9:16
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
- Isaiah 16:8
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
- Isaiah 19:13
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.