To stray
טָעָהStrong’s H2937taah (ta-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Taah is the Hebrew word usually translated “have led astray”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:”
Meaning
- To wander, stray, wander astray, err(Hiphil)
How it's translated
- they have led astray 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
טָעָה taah · to stray
1) to wander, stray, wander astray, err 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to seduce 1a2) to cause to go astray
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stray” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRAY, verb intransitive
[The elements of this word are not certainly known. Latin, G., to wander, to strike; both probably from the root of reach, stretch. See Straggle.]
- To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate or go out of the way.
- To wander from company, or from the proper limits; as, a sheep strays from the flock; a horse strays from an inclosure.
- To rove; to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err; to deviate.
- To wander; to rove at large; to play free and unconfined.
All definitions and other forms of “stray”
- To wander; to run a serpentine course.
STRAY, verb transitive
To mislead. [Not in use.]
STRAY, noun
- Any domestic animal that has left an inclosure or its proper place and company, and wanders at large or is lost.
- The act of wandering. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.