Strong's Hebrew · H8582

תָּעָה

tâʻâh · taw-aw'

Definitionto vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both
Derivationa primitive root;
KJV usage(cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.
Occurrences50 in the KJV · 45 verses

תָּעָה in Scripture

Genesis 20:13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. Genesis 21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer -sheba. Genesis 37:15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? Exodus 23:4 If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 2 Kings 21:9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. 2 Chronicles 33:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel. Job 12:24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. Job 12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man . Job 15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. Job 38:41 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat. Psalms 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Psalms 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
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