תָּעָה
ta.ah (H8582)
to go astray
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# תָּעָה (ta.ah) – To Go Astray The Hebrew verb תָּעָה conveys the fundamental action of deviating from an intended or correct path. Its basic meaning, "to go astray," encompasses both literal and figurative applications, making it a versatile term for describing movement away from a destination, direction, or standard. With fifty occurrences in the biblical text, this verb appears frequently enough to suggest it held significant conceptual weight in Hebrew expression. The range of this word's usage likely extends from concrete situations—such as physical wandering or becoming lost—to abstract or moral dimensions, given the typical semantic patterns of Hebrew verbs dealing with "straying." The moderate frequency of occurrence indicates that biblical writers regularly employed this term to address themes of deviation and displacement, suggesting these were recurring concerns in the texts' contexts and messages. Beyond its immediate lexical definition, the presence of this verb across fifty biblical passages indicates that the concept of "going astray" was important to the religious and narrative concerns of Hebrew scripture. Whether applied to individuals, groups, or metaphorical situations, the verb provided a concise way to express the fundamental idea of departing from an established way—a concept central to many biblical narratives and ethical teachings.
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When 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.” ’ ”
Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container 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.
A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
But 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.
Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
He 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.
They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.
Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Forty 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.”
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
As 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.
For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.
For 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.
The 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.
Yahweh 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.
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
They 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.
They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”
His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
A 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 shall not go there.
The 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.
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
O 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.
“I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
Behold, 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 or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.
For 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 says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’
My 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.
that the house of Israel may no more go 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.’ ”
“ ‘ “But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.
“ ‘ “But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord Yahweh.
It 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.
My 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.
Yahweh 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;
Yahweh 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: