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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 46
    spellings

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

Fifteen of the word's fifty uses are in Isaiah.

The other 26 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

תָּעַעtaato mockUses2

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.”’”

    Genesis 20:13

    • 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.

    Genesis 21:14

    • וַתֵּ֔תַעvateta'Hc/Vqw3fstagged: and she wandered
  • a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”

    Genesis 37:15

    • 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.

    Exodus 23:4

    • 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.

    2 Kings 21:9

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 33:9

    • 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.

    Job 12:24

    • וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗םvaiyatemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he made wander them
  • They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.

    Job 12:25

    • וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗םvaiyatemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he made wander them
  • Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

    Job 15:31

    • 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?

    Job 38:41

    • 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.

    Psalms 58:3

    • 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.”

    Psalms 95:10

    • 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.

    Psalms 107:4

    • 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.

    Psalms 107:40

    • וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗םvaiyatemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he made wander them
  • The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.

    Psalms 119:110

    • 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.

    Psalms 119:176

    • 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.

    Proverbs 7:25

    • 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.

    Proverbs 10:17

    • 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.

    Proverbs 12:26

    • 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.

    Proverbs 14:22

    • 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.

    Proverbs 21:16

    • 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.

    Isaiah 3:12

    • מַתְעִ֔יםmatimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: misleading
  • For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.

    Isaiah 9:16

    • 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.

    Isaiah 16:8

    • 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.

    Isaiah 19:13

    • 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.

    Isaiah 19:14

    • 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.

    Isaiah 21:4

    • 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.

    Isaiah 28:7

    • 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.”

    Isaiah 29:24

    • 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.

    Isaiah 30:28

    • 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.

    Isaiah 35:8

    • 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.

    Isaiah 47:15

    • 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.

    Isaiah 53:6

    • 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.

    Isaiah 63:17

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 23:13

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 23:32

    • 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.’

    Jeremiah 42:20

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 50:6

    • 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.’”

    Ezekiel 14:11

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 44:10

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 44:15

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 48:11

    • 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.

    Hosea 4:12

    • 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.

    Amos 2:4

    • 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:

    Micah 3:5

    • הַמַּתְעִ֣יםhamatimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who mislead

The letters

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.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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