Satah שָׂטָה

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Satah (Hebrew שָׂטָה, Strong's H7847) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to turn aside”. It occurs 6 times in 6 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to turn aside, go aside, turn, decline
1a) (Qal) to turn aside

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	aside (4), turn (1), decline (1)
BSB	goes astray (2), gone astray (1), have gone astray (1), turn (1), turn aside (1)

Every verse with Satah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Numbers 5:12
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
Numbers 5:19
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:And he is to put the woman under oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be immune to this bitter water that brings a curse.
Numbers 5:20
But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—
Numbers 5:29
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,

Proverbs 4:15
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.
Proverbs 7:25
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).