Lexicon :: Strong's H8582 - tāʿâ

“So when God had me wander from my father’s house, I said to her: Show your loyalty to me wherever we go and say about me, ‘He’s my brother.’ ”

Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.

A man found him there, wandering in the field, and asked him, “What are you looking for? ”

“If you come across your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.

But they did not listen; Manasseh caused them to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

He deprives the world’s leaders of reason,

and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Let him not put trust in worthless things, being led astray,

for what he gets in exchange will prove worthless.

Who provides the raven’s food

when its young cry out to God

and wander about for lack of food?

The wicked go astray from the womb;

liars wander about from birth.

For forty years I was disgusted with that generation;

I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;

they do not know my ways.”

Some wandered in the desolate wilderness,

finding no way to a city where they could live.

he pours contempt on nobles

and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

The wicked have set a trap for me,

but I have not wandered from your precepts.

I wander like a lost sheep;

seek your servant,

for I do not forget your commands.

Don’t let your heart turn aside to her ways;

don’t stray onto her paths.

The one who follows instruction is on the path to life,

but the one who rejects correction goes astray.

A righteous person is careful in dealing with his neighbor,[fn]

but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.

Don’t those who plan evil go astray?

But those who plan good find loyalty and faithfulness.

The person who strays from the way of prudence

will come to rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

Youths oppress my people,

and women rule over them.

My people, your leaders mislead you;

they confuse the direction of your paths.

The leaders of the people mislead them,

and those they mislead are swallowed up.[fn]

For Heshbon’s terraced vineyards

and the grapevines of Sibmah have withered.

The rulers of the nations

have trampled its choice vines

that reached as far as Jazer

and spread to the desert.

Their shoots spread out

and reached the sea.

The princes of Zoan have been fools;

the princes of Memphis are deceived.

Her tribal chieftains have led Egypt astray.

My heart staggers;

horror terrifies me.

He has turned my last glimmer of hope[fn]

into sheer terror.

Even these stagger because of wine

and stumble under the influence of beer:

Priest and prophet stagger because of beer.

They are confused by wine.

They stumble because of beer.

They are muddled in their visions.

They stumble in their judgments.

Those who are confused will gain understanding,

and those who grumble will accept instruction.

His breath is like an overflowing torrent

that rises to the neck.

He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction

and to put a bridle on the jaws of the peoples

to lead them astray.

A road will be there and a way;

it will be called the Holy Way.

The unclean will not travel on it,

but it will be for the one who walks the path.

Fools will not wander on it.

“This is what they are to you —

those who have wearied you

and have traded with you from your youth —

each wanders on his own way;

no one can save you.

We all went astray like sheep;

we all have turned to our own way;

and the LORD has punished him

for[fn] the iniquity of us all.

Why, LORD, do you make us stray from your ways?

You harden our hearts so we do not fear[fn] you.

Return, because of your servants,

the tribes of your heritage.

Among the prophets of Samaria

I saw something disgusting:

They prophesied by Baal

and led my people Israel astray.

“I am against those who prophesy false dreams” ​— ​the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“telling them and leading my people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration.

“You have gone astray at the cost of your lives[fn] because you are the ones who sent me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us, and we’ll act accordingly.’

My people were lost sheep;

their shepherds led them astray,

guiding them the wrong way in the mountains.

They wandered from mountain to hill;

they forgot their resting place.

“in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from following me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be my people and I will be their God. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.’ ”

“Surely the Levites who wandered away from me when Israel went astray, and who strayed from me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.

“But the Levitical priests descended from Zadok, who kept charge of my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from me, will approach me to serve me. They will stand before me to offer me fat and blood.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.

“It is for the consecrated priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge and did not go astray as the Levites did when the Israelites went astray.

My people consult their wooden idols,

and their divining rods inform them.

For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray;

they act promiscuously

in disobedience to[fn] their God.

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing Judah

for three crimes, even four,

because they have rejected the instruction of the LORD

and have not kept his statutes.

The lies that their ancestors followed

have led them astray.

This is what the LORD says

concerning the prophets

who lead my people astray,

who proclaim peace

when they have food to sink their teeth into

but declare war against the one

who puts nothing in their mouths.