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Lexicon :: Strong's H8582 - tāʿâ

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תָּעָה
Transliteration
tāʿâ
Pronunciation
taw-aw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2531

Strong’s Definitions

תָּעָה tâʻâh, 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.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 50x

The KJV translates Strong's H8582 in the following manner: err (17x), astray (12x), wander (10x), seduced (3x), stagger (2x), out of the way (2x), away (1x), deceived (1x), miscellaneous (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 50x
The KJV translates Strong's H8582 in the following manner: err (17x), astray (12x), wander (10x), seduced (3x), stagger (2x), out of the way (2x), away (1x), deceived (1x), miscellaneous (2x).

  1. to err, wander, go astray, stagger

    1. (Qal) to err

      1. to wander about (physically)

      2. of intoxication

      3. of sin (ethically)

      4. wandering (of the mind)

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be made to wander about, be made to stagger (drunkard)

      2. to be led astray (ethically)

    3. (Hiphil) to cause to wander

      1. to cause to wander about (physically)

      2. to cause to wander (of intoxication)

      3. to cause to err, mislead (mentally and morally)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תָּעָה tâʻâh, 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.
STRONGS H8582: Abbreviations
† תָּעָה verb err (|| form of טָעָה, q. v.; Aramaic (sometimes) תְּעָא, תְּעִי id.; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew (rare)); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular ת׳ Isaiah 21:4; 1st person singular תָּעִ֫יתִי Psalm 119:110; Psalm 119:176, etc.; imperfect 3rd person feminine singular תֵּתַע Genesis 21:14; Proverbs 7:25; 3rd person masculine plural יִתְעוּ Isaiah 35:8 +; Infinitive construct תְּעוֺת Ezekiel 44:10 +; Participle תֹּעֶה Genesis 37:15 +, etc.; —
1. physically, wander about, absolute Exodus 23:4 (E) Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 53:6; Job 38:41; Psalm 119:176; with ב location Genesis 21:14; Genesis 37:15 (JE), Proverbs 7:25; Psalm 107:4; with ל location Isaiah 47:15; accusative of location Isaiah 16:8.
2. of intoxication, with בְּ of wine Isaiah 28:7; מן of wine Isaiah 28:7; figurative of perplexity, subject לבב Isaiah 21:4.
3. ethically, absolute Ezekiel 44:10; Ezekiel 48:11 (3 times in verse); Psalm 58:4, probably Proverbs 14:22 (compare חוטא Proverbs 14:21, but Bu Toy go astray to ruin); תֹּעֵי רוח Isaiah 29:24, תֹּעֵי לבב Psalm 95:10; with מן Psalm 119:110; Proverbs 21:16, מֵאַחֲרַי Ezekiel 14:11, מֵעָלַי Ezekiel 44:10, 15.
Niph.
1. be made to wander about, as a drunkard: Infinitive construct הִתָּעוֺת Isaiah 19:14.
2. ethically: Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נִתְעָה be led astray Job 15:31 (with בשׁוֺא).
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הִתְעָה Hosea 4:12 (We הִתְעָם); Imperfect וַיֶּ֫תַע 2 Chronicles 33:9; suffix וַיַּתְעֵם Job 12:24 +; Participle מַתְעֶה Isaiah 30:28 +; —
1. physically: cause to wander about: absolute Isaiah 30:28 (of bridle, in figure), Proverbs 10:17; Jeremiah 50:6 (accusative of people as sheep); accusative of person Proverbs 12:26; with מן location Genesis 20:13 (E), ב location Job 12:24 = Psalm 107:40.
2. of intoxication, Isaiah 19:13, 14; Job 12:25.
3. mentally and morally: cause to err, mislead: absolute Isaiah 3:12; Isaiah 9:15; Hosea 4:12; with accusative of person Amos 2:4; Micah 3:5; 2 Kings 21:9 2 Chronicles 33:9; Jeremiah 23:13, 32; with ב object Jeremiah 42:20 (so Gf; Ke and others (so Proverbs 10:17) intransitive err at cost of; Greek Version of the LXX Ew Du Co הֲרֵעֹתֶם); with מן of י׳ Isaiah 63:17.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

20:13; 21:14; 21:14; 37:15; 37:15

Exodus

23:4

2 Kings

21:9

2 Chronicles

33:9; 33:9

Job

12:24; 12:24; 12:25; 15:31; 38:41

Psalms

58:4; 95:10; 107:4; 107:40; 119:110; 119:110; 119:176; 119:176

Proverbs

7:25; 7:25; 10:17; 10:17; 12:26; 14:21; 14:22; 21:16

Isaiah

3:12; 9:15; 16:8; 19:13; 19:14; 19:14; 21:4; 21:4; 28:7; 28:7; 29:24; 30:28; 30:28; 35:8; 35:8; 47:15; 53:6; 63:17

Jeremiah

23:13; 23:32; 42:20; 50:6

Ezekiel

14:11; 44:10; 44:10; 44:10; 44:15; 48:11

Hosea

4:12; 4:12

Amos

2:4

Micah

3:5

H8582

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Strong's Number H8582 matches the Hebrew תָּעָה (tāʿâ),
which occurs 51 times in 45 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13 - And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt show to me; At every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - And Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar (putting it on her shoulder) and the child, and sent her away; and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:15 - And a certain man found him, and behold he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:4 - If thou shalt meet thy enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:9 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:24 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31 - Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:41 - Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to God, they wander for want of food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:3 - The wicked are estranged from their birth: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 95:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:10 - 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:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:4 - They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:40

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:40 - He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:110

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:110 - The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:176

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:176 - I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:25 - Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:17 - He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:26 - The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:22 - Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:16 - The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:12 - As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:16 - For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led by them are destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8 - For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down her principal plants, they have come even to Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are extended, they have gone over the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:13 - The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the support of its tribes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:14 - The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst of it: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work of it, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:4 - My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:7 - 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 overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:24 - They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 - And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:8 - And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the way-faring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15 - Thus shall they be to thee with whom thou hast labored, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:6 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 63:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:17 - 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 thy inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:13 - And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:32 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:20 - For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me to the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:6 - My people have 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 resting-place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:11 - That the house of Israel may no more go 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:10 - And the Levites that have gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:15 - 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 to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 48:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:11 - It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; who have kept my charge, who went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12 - My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth to them: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they have gone astray from under their God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:4 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away their punishment: because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked:

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:5 - 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:
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