To wander
שָׁגָהStrong’s H7686shagah (sha-gah)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shagah is the Hebrew word usually translated “reeled”, “leads astray” and “go astray”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;”
Meaning
- To go astray, stray, err(Qal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- they reeled 3
- leads astray 2
- they will go astray 1
- you will err 1
- and i have gone astray 1
- have i erred 1
- and leads astray 1
- i have erred 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 6
- Job 3
- Psalms 3
- Ezekiel 2
- Leviticus 1
- Numbers 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 15:22And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
- Deuteronomy 27:18Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
- 1 Samuel 26:21Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
- Job 6:24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
- Job 12:16With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
- Job 19:4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁגָה shagah · to wander
1) to go astray, stray, err 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to err, stray 1a2) to swerve, meander, reel, roll, be intoxicated, err (in drunkenness) 1a3) to go astray (morally) 1a4) to commit sin of ignorance or inadvertence, err (ignorantly) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to lead astray 1b2) to lead astray, mislead (mentally) 1b3) to lead astray (morally)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wander” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WANDER, verb intransitive
[G., to wander to walk, to change, exchange or transform.]
- To rove; to ramble here and there without any certain course or object in view; as, to wander over the fields; to wander about the town, or about the country.“They wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins” Hebrews 11:37“He wandereth abroad for bread” Job 15:23“He was wandering in the field” Genesis 37:15
- To leave home; to depart; to migrate.“When God caused me to wander from my fathers house--” Genesis 20:13
- To depart from the subject in discussion; as, to wander from the point.
- In a moral sense, to stray; to deviate; to depart from duty or rectitude.“O let me not wander from they commandments” Psalms 119:10
All definitions and other forms of “wander”
- To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; as, the mind wanders.
WANDER, verb transitive
To travel over without a certain course.
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.