Midvash

תָּעָהtâʻâh

err

Pronunciation: taw-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8582

Meanings

Qal

1. wander about, physically (Exodus 23:4; Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 53:6)

2. of intoxication (Isaiah 28:7; Isaiah 21:4)

3. ethically (Ezekiel 44:10; Ezekiel 48:11; Psalms 58:4)

Niph`al

1. be made to wander about, as a drunkard (Isaiah 19:14)

2. be led astray, ethically (Job 15:31)

Hiph`il

1. cause to wander about, physically (Isaiah 30:28; Proverbs 10:17; Jeremiah 50:6)

2. of intoxication (Isaiah 19:13; Isaiah 19:14; Job 12:25)

3. cause to err, mislead, mentally and morally (Isaiah 3:12; Isaiah 9:15; Hosea 4:12)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 50 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 20:13 When God called me to leave my father’s home and to travel from place to place, I told her, ‘Do me a favor. Wherever we go, tell the people that I am your brother.’”
  • Genesis 21:14 So Abraham got up early the next morning, prepared food and a container of water, and strapped them on Hagar’s shoulders. Then he sent her away with their son, and she wandered aimlessly in the wilderness of Beersheba.
  • Genesis 37:15 When he arrived there, a man from the area noticed him wandering around the countryside. “What are you looking for?” he asked.
  • Exodus 23:4 “If you come upon your enemy’s ox or donkey that has strayed away, take it back to its owner.
  • 2 Kings 21:9 But the people refused to listen, and Manasseh led them to do even more evil than the pagan nations that the Lord had destroyed when the people of Israel entered the land.
  • 2 Chronicles 33:9 But Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem to do even more evil than the pagan nations that the Lord had destroyed when the people of Israel entered the land.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).