Limitless Word
תָּעָהtâʻâh/taw-aw'/
HebrewH858251 occurrences (KJV)

to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both

KJV 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.

Where it appears(showing the first 45 of 51)

  • Gen 20:13When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
  • Gen 21:14Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
  • Gen 37:15A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
  • Exod 23:4“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
  • 2 Kgs 21:9But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
  • 2 Chr 33:9Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel did.
  • Job 12:24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
  • Job 12:25They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
  • Job 15:31Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.
  • Job 38:41Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
  • Ps 58:3The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
  • Ps 95:10Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
  • Ps 107:4They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
  • Ps 107:40He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
  • Ps 119:110The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
  • Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
  • Prov 7:25Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
  • Prov 10:17He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
  • Prov 12:26A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
  • Prov 14:22Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
  • Prov 21:16The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
  • Isa 3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
  • Isa 9:16For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.
  • Isa 16:8For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.
  • Isa 19:13The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.
  • Isa 19:14Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
  • Isa 21:4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
  • Isa 28:7They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
  • Isa 29:24They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”
  • Isa 30:28His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
  • Isa 35:8A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
  • Isa 47:15The things that you labored in will be like this: those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way. There will be no one to save you.
  • Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Isa 63:17O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
  • Jer 23:13“I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
  • Jer 23:32Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them, nor command them; neither do they profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.
  • Jer 42:20For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it:’
  • Jer 50:6My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.
  • Ezek 14:11that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
  • Ezek 44:10But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.
  • Ezek 44:15But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:
  • Ezek 48:11It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
  • Hos 4:12My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
  • Amos 2:4Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;
  • Mic 3:5Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.