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Lexicon :: Strong's H8582 - tāʿâ

Aa
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 BoxGen 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13 - And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:15 - And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:4 - If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9 - But they did not give ear; and Manasseh made them do more evil than those nations did, whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:9 - And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:24 - He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31 - Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:41 - Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:3 - The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:10 - For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:4 - They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:40

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:40 - He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:110

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:110 - Sinners have put a net to take me; but I was true to your orders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:176

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:176 - I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:25 - Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:17 - He who takes note of teaching is a way of life, but he who gives up training is a cause of error.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:26 - The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:22 - Will not the designers of evil come into error? But mercy and good faith are for the designers of good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:16 - The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:12 - As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:16 - For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8 - For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:13 - The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:14 - The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:4 - My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:7 - And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:24 - Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give attention to his teaching.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 - And his breath is as an overflowing stream, coming up even to the neck, shaking the nations for their destruction, like the shaking of grain in a basket: and he will put a cord in the mouths of the people, turning them out of their way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:8 - And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15 - Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:6 - We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:17 - O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:13 - And I have seen ways without sense in the prophets of Samaria; they became prophets of the Baal, causing my people Israel to go wrong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:32 - See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:20 - For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:6 - My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:11 - So that the children of Israel may no longer go wandering away from me, or make themselves unclean with all their wrongdoing; but they will be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:10 - But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:15 - But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of my holy place when the children of Israel were turned away from me, they are to come near me to do my work, they will take their places before me, offering to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:11 - For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did,

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:12 - My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:4 - These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:5 - This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.
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