Strong's #8582: ta`ah (pronounced taw-aw')

a primitive root; to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both:--(cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tâ‛âh

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)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 50 times:

 

Genesis 20:13: "And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said"
Genesis 21:14: "and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba."
Genesis 37:15: "And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying,"
Exodus 23:4: "ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again."
2 Kings 21:9: "But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than"
2 Chronicles 33:9: "Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen,"
Job 12:24: "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: "in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken"
Job 15:31: "Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense."
Job 38:41: "cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat."
Psalms 58:3: "The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking"
Psalms 95:10: "and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known"
Psalms 107:4: " They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell"
Psalms 107:40: "contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way."
Psalms 119:110: "The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts."
Psalms 119:176: " I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget"
Proverbs 7:25: "decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths."
Proverbs 10:17: "instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth."
Proverbs 12:26: "than his neighbor: but the way of the wicked seduceth"
Proverbs 14:22: "Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good."
Proverbs 21:16: "The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead."
Isaiah 3:12: "rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths."
Isaiah 9:16: "For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed."
Isaiah 16:8: "thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over"
Isaiah 19:13: "the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes"
Isaiah 19:14: "in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth"
Isaiah 19:14: "in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit."
Isaiah 21:4: "My heart panted, fearfulness frightened me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned"
Isaiah 28:7: "have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink,"
Isaiah 28:7: "they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision,"
Isaiah 29:24: " They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine."
Isaiah 30:28: "in the jaws of the people, causing them to err."
Isaiah 35:8: "shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err"
Isaiah 47:15: "thou hast labored, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none"
Isaiah 53:6: "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid"
Isaiah 63:17: "O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear?"
Jeremiah 23:13: "my people Israel to err."
Jeremiah 23:32: "and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent"
Jeremiah 42:20: "For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD"
Jeremiah 50:6: "lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain"
Ezekiel 14:11: "of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted"
Ezekiel 44:10: "that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray"
Ezekiel 44:10: "from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from"
Ezekiel 44:15: "of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near"
Ezekiel 48:11: "which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel"
Ezekiel 48:11: "which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites"
Ezekiel 48:11: "when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray."
Hosea 4:12: "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: "kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:"
Micah 3:5: "the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace;"