To go astray
תָּעָהStrong’s H8582taah (ta-ah)
Appears in 45 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taah is the Hebrew word usually translated “made wander them”, “when went astray” and “went astray”. It appears in 45 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- To err, wander, go astray, stagger(Qal) to err · (Niphal) · (Hiphil) to cause to wander
How it's translated
- and he made wander them 3
- when went astray 3
- they went astray 3
- they will wander about 2
- go astray of 2
- i have gone astray 2
- misleading 2
- they staggered 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 13
- Psalms 6
- Proverbs 5
- Job 4
- Jeremiah 4
- Ezekiel 4
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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 Beersheba.
- 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.
All 45 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
תָּעָה taah · to go astray
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)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mislead” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MISLE'AD, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive misled. [See Lead.]
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.