Hebrew verb · H8582
תָּעָה
taahtaw-aw'
to go astray
50 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tâʻâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8582is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 46spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8582
to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both
The King James renders it: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.
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
taah is rendered "to go astray". It stands 50 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Fifteen of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 20:13So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
- The Greek text spells it forty-six different ways.
The first use
So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Genesis 20:13הִתְע֣וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he made wander them3
- they went astray3
- when went astray3
- and they caused to err2
- go astray of2
- I have gone astray2
- misleading2
- they staggered2
- they will wander about2
- and he misled1
- and he misled them1
- and she wandered1
and 26 more, 50 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תָּעַע | taa | to mock | Uses2 |
The words it stands beside
All 50, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
46 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
- וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗ם3
- בִּתְע֤וֹת2
- תָּע֣וּ2
- בִּתְעוֹת֙1
- הַמַּתְעִ֣ים1
- הִתְעָ֔ה1
- הִתְע֣וּ1
- הִתְע֥וּ1
- הִתְע֔וּם1
- הִתְעֵיתֶם֮1
- וְהִתְע֤וּ1
- וַיֶּ֣תַע1
and 34 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural9HVqp3cp
- Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mp4Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural4HVqi3mp
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)3HR/Vqcc
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular3HVqrmsa
- Hc/Vhw3mp2Hc/Vhw3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVhp3cp
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural2HVhrmpa
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular2HVhrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HVqrmpc
- Hc/Vhq3cp1Hc/Vhq3cp
Genesis
three uses
So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
- הִתְע֣וּhituverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they caused to wander
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
- וַתֵּ֔תַעvateta'Hc/Vqw3fstagged: and she wandered
a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”
- תֹעֶ֖הtoehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: wandering
Exodus
one use
If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.
- תֹּעֶ֑הtoehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: wandering off
2 Kings
one use
But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
- וַיַּתְעֵ֤םvaiyatemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he misled them
2 Chronicles
one use
So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
- וַיֶּ֣תַעvaiyeta'Hc/Vhw3mstagged: and he misled
Job
four uses
He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗םvaiyatemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he made wander them
They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
- וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗םvaiyatemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he made wander them
Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
- נִתְעָ֑הnitahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has been led astray
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
- יִ֝תְע֗וּyituverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will wander about
Psalms
six uses
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
- תָּע֥וּtauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they go astray
For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
- תֹּעֵ֣יtoeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: go astray of
Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
- תָּע֣וּtauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they wandered about
He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗םvaiyatemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he made wander them
The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.
- תָעִֽיתִי׃taitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have gone astray
I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
- תָּעִ֗יתִיtaitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have gone astray
Proverbs
five uses
Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
- תֵּ֝תַעteta'verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: it go astray
Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who ignores reproof goes astray.
- מַתְעֶֽה׃matehverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: leading astray
A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.
- תַּתְעֵֽם׃tatemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: it misleads them
Do not those who contrive evil go astray? But those who plan goodness find loving devotion and faithfulness.
- יִ֭תְעוּyituverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: do they go astray
The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
- תּ֭וֹעֶהtoehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: wanders
Isaiah
fifteen uses
Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.
- מַתְעִ֔יםmatimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: misleading
For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.
- מַתְעִ֑יםmatimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: misleading
For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
- תָּ֣עוּtauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they wandered
The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.
- הִתְע֥וּhituverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have misled
The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
- וְהִתְע֤וּvehituHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they have misled
- כְּהִתָּע֥וֹתkehitaotpreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: as is made to stagger
My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
- תָּעָ֣הtaahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has wandered
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.
- תָּע֑וּtauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they staggered
- תָּעוּ֙tauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they staggered
Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”
- תֹֽעֵי־toei-verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: go astray of
His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
- מַתְעֶ֔הmatehverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: leads astray
And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.
- יִתְעֽוּ׃yituverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will wander about
This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.
- תָּע֔וּtauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have wandered
We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
- תָּעִ֔ינוּtainuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have gone astray
Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
- תַתְעֵ֤נוּtatenuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: do you make wander us
Jeremiah
four uses
“Among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.
- וַיַּתְע֥וּvaiyatuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they caused to err
“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.
- וַיַּתְע֣וּvaiyatuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they caused to err
For you have deceived yourselves by sending 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 will do it.’
- הִתְעֵיתֶם֮hiteteimverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you caused to err
My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.
- הִתְע֔וּםhitumverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they have caused to wander them
Ezekiel
seven uses
in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be My people and I will be their God, declares the Lord GOD.’”
- יִתְע֨וּyituverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will wander
Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.
- בִּתְע֤וֹתbitotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when went astray
- תָּע֣וּtauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they went astray
But the Levitical priests, who are descended from Zadok and who kept charge of My sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from Me, are to approach Me to minister before Me. They will stand before Me to offer Me fat and blood, declares the Lord GOD.
- בִּתְע֤וֹתbitotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when went astray
It will be for the consecrated priests, the descendants of Zadok, who kept My charge and did not go astray as the Levites did when the Israelites went astray.
- תָע֗וּtauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they went astray
- בִּתְעוֹת֙bitotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when went astray
- תָּע֖וּtauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they went astray
Hosea
one use
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
- הִתְעָ֔הhitahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has misled
Amos
one use
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
- וַיַּתְעוּם֙vaiyatumHc/Vhw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they have misled them
Micah
one use
This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
- הַמַּתְעִ֣יםhamatimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who mislead
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.
