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Strong's H8582 תָּעָה (taah)

Taah means “vacillate” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H8582
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 45
Books 13

Strong's H8582 Quick Answer

Strong's H8582 תָּעָה (ta`ah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ta`ah (taw-aw') v. 1. to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively) 2. also causative of both It has 45 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include go, cause, also, went, and astray. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
ta`ah (taw-aw') v. 1. to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively) 2. also causative of both
Usage
45 linked usages
Books
13 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
go, cause, also, went, and astray

Meaning and Definition

ta`ah (taw-aw') v. 1. to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively) 2. also causative of both [a primitive root] KJV: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.

Original Word
תָּעָה
Transliteration
ta`ah
Derivation
Root: תעה
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H8582. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to go astray

Usage: 1) to err, wander, go astray, stagger 1a) (Qal) to err 1a1) to wander about (physically) 1a2) of intoxication 1a3) of sin (ethically) 1a4) wandering (of the mind) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be made to wander about, be made to stagger (drunkard) 1b2) to be led astray (ethically) 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to wander 1c1) to cause to wander about (physically) 1c2) to cause to wander (of intoxication) 1c3) to cause to err, mislead (mentally and morally)

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How Strong's H8582 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ta`ah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

go Psalms 58:3 also Isaiah 19:13 cause Isaiah 3:12 went Ezekiel 44:10 astray Psalms 119:176 caused Genesis 20:13 going Exodus 23:4 she Genesis 21:14 wandering Genesis 37:15

How Strong's H8582 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 45 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H8582 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H8582 in the Old Testament

45 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 20:13 KJV

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.

Genesis 21:14 KJV

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 Beersheba.

Genesis 37:15 KJV

And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

Usage Excerpts

First 45 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8582.

Genesis 20:13 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Genesis 21:14 Old Testament, KJV
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 Beersheba.
Genesis 37:15 Old Testament, KJV
And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
Exodus 23:4 Old Testament, KJV
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
2 Kings 21:9 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Chronicles 33:9 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Job 12:24 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Job 12:25 Old Testament, KJV
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
Job 15:31 Old Testament, KJV
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
Job 38:41 Old Testament, KJV
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Psalms 58:3 Old Testament, KJV
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Psalms 95:10 Old Testament, KJV
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:
Psalms 107:4 Old Testament, KJV
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Psalms 107:40 Old Testament, KJV
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Psalms 119:110 Old Testament, KJV
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
Psalms 119:176 Old Testament, KJV
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
Proverbs 7:25 Old Testament, KJV
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Proverbs 10:17 Old Testament, KJV
He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
Proverbs 12:26 Old Testament, KJV
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Proverbs 14:22 Old Testament, KJV
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
Proverbs 21:16 Old Testament, KJV
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Isaiah 3:12 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 9:16 Old Testament, KJV
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Isaiah 16:8 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 19:13 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 19:14 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 21:4 Old Testament, KJV
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
Isaiah 28:7 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 29:24 Old Testament, KJV
They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Isaiah 30:28 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 35:8 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 47:15 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 53:6 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 63:17 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 23:13 Old Testament, KJV
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
Jeremiah 23:32 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 42:20 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 50:6 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 14:11 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 44:10 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 44:15 Old Testament, KJV
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:
Ezekiel 48:11 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Hosea 4:12 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Amos 2:4 Old Testament, KJV
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:
Micah 3:5 Old Testament, KJV
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.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8582, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 4 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 6 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 5 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 13 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 4 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H8582 FAQ

What does taah (תָּעָה) mean?

Taah (Strong's H8582) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "vacillate". ta`ah (taw-aw') v. 1. to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively) 2. also causative of both

How many times is taah (תָּעָה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 45 linked usages for Strong's H8582 across 13 books.

Where can I study taah (תָּעָה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8582 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate taah (תָּעָה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as go, cause, also, went, astray, and caused. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.