Error
תּוֹעָהStrong’s H8442toah (to-ah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Toah is the Hebrew word usually translated “confusion” and “error”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.”
Meaning
- Error, wandering, impiety, perversionserror (in morals and religion) · confusion, disturbance
How it's translated
- confusion 1
- error 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
תּוֹעָה toah · error
1) error, wandering, impiety, perversions 1a) error (in morals and religion) 1b) confusion, disturbance
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “error” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ER'ROR, noun
[Latin error from erro, to wander.]
A wandering or deviation from the truth; a mistake in judgment, by which men assent to or believe what is not true. error may be voluntary, or involuntary. Voluntary, when men neglect or pervert the proper means to inform the mind; involuntary, when the means of judging correctly are not in their power. An error committed through carelessness or haste is a blunder.
- A mistake made in writing or other performance.
- A wandering; excursion; irregular course.
- Deviation from law, justice or right; oversight; mistake in conduct.
- In scripture and theology, sin; iniquity; transgression.“Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret faults” Psalms 19:12
All definitions and other forms of “error”
- In law, a mistake in pleading or in judgment.
ER'ROR, verb transitive
To determine a judgment of court to be erroneous.
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.