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תָּעָה H8582

H8582 is the Hebrew word תָּעָה, transliterated tâʻâh and said taw-aw'. The King James Version most often renders it err.

Word: תָּעָהTransliteration: tâʻâhSaid: taw-aw'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 40 verses

What it means

to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both.

Where it comes from

a primitive root.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 26 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

err 6×wandered 3×went astray 3×causeth them to wander 2×wander 2×gone astray 2×out of the way 2×caused them to err 2×caused me to wander 1×behold he was wandering 1×going astray 1×seduced 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.

Verses using תָּעָה

All 40 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 20:13 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 Beersheba.

Genesis 37:15 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Job 15:31 · KJV

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

Job 38:41 · KJV

Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

Psalm 58:3 · KJV

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Psalm 95:10 · KJV

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:

Psalm 107:4 · KJV

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

Psalm 107:40 · KJV

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

Psalm 119:110 · KJV

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

Psalm 119:176 · KJV

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

Proverbs 7:25 · KJV

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

Proverbs 14:22 · KJV

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Proverbs 21:16 · KJV

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

Isaiah 3:12 · KJV

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 · KJV

For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Isaiah 16:8 · KJV

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 · KJV

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.

Isaiah 19:14 · KJV

The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

Isaiah 21:4 · KJV

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

Isaiah 28:7 · KJV

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Isaiah 29:24 · KJV

They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

Isaiah 47:15 · KJV

Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

Isaiah 53:6 · KJV

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 63:17 · KJV

O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Jeremiah 23:32 · KJV

Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 42:20 · KJV

For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.

Jeremiah 50:6 · KJV

My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

Ezekiel 14:11 · KJV

That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 44:10 · KJV

And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 44:15 · KJV

But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:

Ezekiel 48:11 · KJV

It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

Hosea 4:12 · KJV

My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

Amos 2:4 · KJV

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

Micah 3:5 · KJV

Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

Common questions

What does Strong's H8582 mean?

H8582 is the Hebrew word תָּעָה (tâʻâh), meaning to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both.

How is H8582 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it err (6 times), wandered (3 times), went astray (3 times), causeth them to wander (2 times), wander (2 times), among others.

How many times does H8582 appear in the Bible?

תָּעָה (tâʻâh) is tagged in 40 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H8582 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: a primitive root.

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