Strong's #7686: shagah (pronounced shaw-gaw')

a primitive root; to stray (causatively, mislead), usually (figuratively) to mistake, especially (morally) to transgress; by extension (through the idea of intoxication) to reel, (figuratively) be enraptured:--(cause to) go astray, deceive, err, be ravished, sin through ignorance, (let, make to) wander.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâgâh

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)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 21 times:

 

Leviticus 4:13: "the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes"
Numbers 15:22: "And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments,"
Deuteronomy 27:18: "Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen."
1 Samuel 26:21: "this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly."
Job 6:24: "will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred."
Job 12:16: "him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver"
Job 19:4: "And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with"
Psalms 119:10: "heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments."
Psalms 119:21: "Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments."
Psalms 119:118: "Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood."
Proverbs 5:19: "satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love."
Proverbs 5:20: "And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?"
Proverbs 5:23: "instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray."
Proverbs 19:27: "my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge."
Proverbs 20:1: "strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."
Proverbs 28:10: "Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright"
Isaiah 28:7: "But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet"
Isaiah 28:7: "are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine,"
Isaiah 28:7: "they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment."
Ezekiel 34:6: "My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill:"
Ezekiel 45:20: "the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile"