Taah תָּעָה

Taah (Hebrew תָּעָה, Strong's H8582) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to go astray”. It occurs 50 times in 45 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

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

Translated as

Verses

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

Genesis

• 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.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 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.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 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?a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”

Exodus

• Exodus 23:4
  If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.

2 Kings

• 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.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 Chronicles

• 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.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.

Job

• 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.He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
• Job 12:25
  They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
• Job 15:31
  Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
• Job 38:41
  Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

Psalms

• Psalm 58:3
  The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
• Psalm 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: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.”
• Psalm 107:4
  They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
• Psalm 107:40
  He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
• Psalm 119:110
  The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.
• Psalm 119:176
  I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

Proverbs

• 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.
• Proverbs 10:17
  He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who ignores reproof goes astray.
• Proverbs 12:26
  The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.
• Proverbs 14:22
  Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.Do not those who contrive evil go astray? But those who plan goodness find loving devotion and faithfulness.
• Proverbs 21:16
  The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 3:12
  As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.
• Isaiah 9:16
  For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.
• Isaiah 16:8
  For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.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 19:13
  The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.
• Isaiah 19:14
  The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.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 21:4
  My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
• Isaiah 28:7
  But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.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 29:24
  They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”
• Isaiah 30:28
  And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.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 35:8
  And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.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 47:15
  Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.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 53:6
  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.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 63:17
  O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.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.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 23:13
  And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.“Among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.
• Jeremiah 23:32
  Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord.“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 42:20
  For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us unto the Lord our God; and according unto all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.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 50:6
  My people hath 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 restingplace.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.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 14:11
  That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord God.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 44:10
  And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.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 44:15
  But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God: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 48:11
  It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites 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.

Hosea

• Hosea 4:12
  My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.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.

Amos

• Amos 2:4
  Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked: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.

Micah

• Micah 3:5
  Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.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:

Notes

1. 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.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).