Usually translated as
err, go astray, wander, be out of the way, stagger, deceive, dissemble, pant, seduce
Occurrences
Tâʻâh occurs 50 times in 45 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (3), Exodus (1), 2 Kings (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Job (4), Psalms (6), Proverbs (5), Isaiah (13), Jeremiah (4), Ezekiel (4), Hosea (1), Amos (1), Micah (1)
- Genesis 20:13 — And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander (הִתְע֣וּ) 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 (וַתֵּ֔תַע) in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
- Genesis 37:15 — And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering (תֹעֶ֖ה) 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 (תֹּעֶ֑ה), thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
- 2 Kings 21:9 — But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced (וַיַּתְעֵ֤ם) 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 (וַיֶּ֣תַע), 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 (וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗ם) in a wilderness where there is no way.
- Job 12:25 — They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger (וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗ם) like a drunken man.
- Job 15:31 — Let not him that is deceived (נִתְעָ֑ה) 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 (יִ֝תְע֗וּ) for lack of meat.
- Psalms 58:3 — The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray (תָּע֥וּ) 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 (תֹּעֵ֣י) in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
- Psalms 107:4 — They wandered (תָּע֣וּ) in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
- Psalms 107:40 — He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander (וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗ם) in the wilderness, where there is no way.
- Psalms 119:110 — The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred (תָעִֽיתִי) not from thy precepts.
- Psalms 119:176 — I have gone astray (תָּעִ֗יתִי) like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
- Proverbs 7:25 — Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray (תֵּ֝תַע) in her paths.
- Proverbs 10:17 — He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth (מַתְעֶֽה).
- Proverbs 12:26 — The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth (תַּתְעֵֽם) them.
- Proverbs 14:22 — Do they not err (יִ֭תְעוּ) that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
- Proverbs 21:16 — The man that wandereth (תּ֭וֹעֶה) out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
- 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 (מַתְעִ֔ים), and destroy the way of thy paths.
- Isaiah 9:16 — For the leaders of this people cause them to err (מַתְעִ֑ים); and they that are led of them are destroyed.
- 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 (תָּ֣עוּ) through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
- Isaiah 19:13 — The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced (הִתְע֥וּ) Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
- Isaiah 19:14 — The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err (וְהִתְע֤וּ) in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
- 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 (כְּהִתָּע֥וֹת) in his vomit.
- Isaiah 21:4 — My heart panted (תָּעָ֣ה), fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
- Isaiah 28:7 — But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way (תָּע֑וּ); 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.
- 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 (תָּעוּ֙) through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
- Isaiah 29:24 — They also that erred (תֹֽעֵי) in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
- 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 (מַתְעֶ֔ה).
- 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 (יִתְעֽוּ) therein.
- Isaiah 47:15 — Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander (תָּע֔וּ) every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
- Isaiah 53:6 — All we like sheep have gone astray (תָּעִ֔ינוּ); we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Isaiah 63:17 — O LORD, why hast thou made us to err (תַתְעֵ֤נוּ) from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
- Jeremiah 23:13 — And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err (וַיַּתְע֥וּ).
- 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 (וַיַּתְע֣וּ) 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.
- Jeremiah 42:20 — For ye dissembled (הִתְעֵיתֶם֮) 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.
- Jeremiah 50:6 — My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray (הִתְע֔וּם), they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
- Ezekiel 14:11 — That the house of Israel may go no more astray (יִתְע֨וּ) 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.
- Ezekiel 44:10 — And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray (בִּתְע֤וֹת), which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 44:10 — And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray (תָּע֣וּ) away from me after their idols; they shall even bear 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 (בִּתְע֤וֹת) 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:
- 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 (תָע֗וּ) when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
- 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 (תָּע֖וּ), as the Levites went astray.
- 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 (בִּתְעוֹת֙).
- 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 (הִתְעָ֔ה), and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
- 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 (וַיַּתְעוּם֙), after the which their fathers have walked:
- Micah 3:5 — Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err (הַמַּתְעִ֣ים), that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.