# תָּעָה (taah) Israeli respelling: ta-ah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H8582. 45 Old Testament occurrences. to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both King James renderings: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/taah-h8582 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Genesis 21:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th… - [Genesis 37:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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? - [Exodus 23:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/4) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 Israe… - [2 Chronicles 33:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ch… - [Job 12:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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. - [Job 12:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/12/25) — They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. - [Job 15:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/31) — Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. - [Job 38:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/41) — Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat. - [Psalms 58:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/58/3) — The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. - [Psalms 95:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/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: - [Psalms 107:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/4) — They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. - [Psalms 107:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/40) — He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way. - [Psalms 119:110](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/110) — The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. - [Psalms 119:176](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/176) — I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments. - [Proverbs 7:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/7/25) — Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. - [Proverbs 10:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/17) — He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth. - [Proverbs 12:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/26) — The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them. - [Proverbs 14:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/22) — Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good. - [Proverbs 21:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/16) — The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. - [Isaiah 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Isaiah 9:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/9/16) — For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. - [Isaiah 16:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ar… - [Isaiah 19:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 tr… - [Isaiah 19:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sta… - [Isaiah 21:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/21/4) — My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. - [Isaiah 28:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 dr… - [Isaiah 29:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/24) — They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. - [Isaiah 30:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sha… - [Isaiah 35:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 f… - [Isaiah 47:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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;… - [Isaiah 53:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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. - [Isaiah 63:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 thin… - [Jeremiah 23:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/13) — And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. - [Jeremiah 23:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th… - [Jeremiah 42:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Jeremiah 50:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Ezekiel 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Ezekiel 44:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Ezekiel 44:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Ezekiel 48:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Hosea 4:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 h… - [Amos 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 despis… - [Micah 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 in…