Hebrew verb · H7686
שָׁגָה
shagahshaw-gaw'
to wander
21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâgâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7686is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 21spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7686
to stray (causatively, mislead), usually (figuratively) to mistake, especially (morally) to transgress; by extension (through the idea of intoxication) to reel, (figuratively) be enraptured
The King James renders it: (cause to) go astray, deceive, err, be ravished, sin through ignorance, (let, make to) wander.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shagah is rendered "to wander". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Six of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 4:13Now if the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly so that they violate any of the LORD’s commandments and incur guilt by doing what is forbidden,
- The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.
The first use
Now if the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly so that they violate any of the LORD’s commandments and incur guilt by doing what is forbidden,
Leviticus 4:13יִשְׁגּ֔וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's twenty-one uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- they reeled3
- leads astray2
- and I have gone astray1
- and leads astray1
- errs1
- go astray1
- have I erred1
- he will go astray1
- I have erred1
- may you be intoxicated1
- staggers1
- they wander1
and 6 more, 21 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
21 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַ֝שֹּׁגִים1
- וָאֶשְׁגֶּ֖ה1
- וּמַשְׁגֶּֽה׃1
- יִשְׁגֶּֽה׃ פ1
- יִשְׁגּ֔וּ1
- יִשְׁגּ֤וּ1
- לִ֝שְׁג֗וֹת1
- מַשְׁגֶּ֥ה1
- מַשְׁגֶּ֤ה1
- שֹׁ֥גֶה1
- שֹׁגֶ֖ה1
- שָׁג֔וּ1
and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural3HVqp3cp
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular2HVhrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vhrmsa
- Hc/Vqw1cs1Hc/Vqw1cs
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HTd/Vqrmpa
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVhi2ms/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqi2mp
Leviticus
one use
Now if the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly so that they violate any of the LORD’s commandments and incur guilt by doing what is forbidden,
- יִשְׁגּ֔וּyishguverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will go astray
Numbers
one use
Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—
- תִשְׁגּ֔וּtishguverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will err
Deuteronomy
one use
‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- מַשְׁגֶּ֥הmashgehverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: leads astray
1 Samuel
one use
Then Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. I will never harm you again, because today you considered my life precious. I have played the fool and have committed a grave error!”
- וָאֶשְׁגֶּ֖הvaeshgehHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I have gone astray
Job
three uses
Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand how I have erred.
- שָּׁ֝גִ֗יתִיshagitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: have I erred
True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.
- וּמַשְׁגֶּֽה׃umashgehconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: and leads astray
Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
- שָׁגִ֑יתִיshagitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have erred
Psalms
three uses
With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
- תַּ֝שְׁגֵּ֗נִיtashgeniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you allow to stray me
You rebuke the arrogant— the cursed who stray from Your commandments.
- הַ֝שֹּׁגִיםhashogimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who go astray
You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain.
- שׁוֹגִ֣יםshogimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: go astray
Proverbs
six uses
A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
- תִּשְׁגֶּ֥הtishgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: may you be intoxicated
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- תִשְׁגֶּ֣הtishgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you go astray
He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
- יִשְׁגֶּֽה׃ פyishgehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will go astray
If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
- לִ֝שְׁג֗וֹתlishgotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to stray
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
- שֹׁ֥גֶהshogehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: staggers
He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.
- מַשְׁגֶּ֤הmashgehverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: leads astray
Isaiah
three uses
These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.
- שָׁג֔וּshaguverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they reeled
- שָׁג֨וּshaguverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they reeled
- שָׁגוּ֙shaguverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they reeled
Ezekiel
two uses
My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.’
- יִשְׁגּ֤וּyishguverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they wander
You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for anyone who strays unintentionally or in ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.
- שֹׁגֶ֖הshogehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: errs
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.