Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to stray (causatively, mislead), usually (figuratively) to mistake, especially (morally) to transgress; by extension (through the idea of intoxication) to reel, (figuratively) be enraptured
KJV Usage: (cause to) go astray, deceive, err, be ravished, sin through ignorance, (let, make to) wander
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁגָה (sha.gah) — to wander. 1) to go astray, stray, err 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to err, stray 1a2) to swerve, meander, reel, roll, be intoxicated, err (in drunkenness) 1a3) to go astray (morally) 1a4) to commit sin of ignorance or inadvertence, err (ignorantly) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to lead astray 1b2) to lead astray, mislead (mentally) 1b3) to lead astray (morally)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מִשְׁגֶּה · שְׁגִיאָה · שִׁגָּיֹון
Move | verb qal
to stray, to wander = action by which animals move about without apparent purpose or destination
Move | verb hif
to misdirect = causative action by which humans cause other humans to go in the wrong direction
Unsteady | verb qal | ≈ תעה
to stray, to stagger = action by which humans move about unsteadily and without sense of direction
Sin | verb qal
to err, to go astray = action by which humans act wrongly, though without the intention to do so
LEV 4:13 · NUM 15:22 · 1SA 26:21 · JOB 6:24 · JOB 19:4 · PSA 119:21 · PSA 119:118 · PRO 5:19 · PRO 5:20 · PRO 5:23 · PRO 19:27 · PRO 20:1 · ISA 28:7 · EZK 45:20
Sin | verb hif
to mislead = causative action by which humans or deities cause (other) humans to act wrongly
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[שָׁגָה] vb. go astray, err Qal err, stray, of flock
swerve, meander, reel or roll
go astray
specif. commit sin of ignorance, inadvertence
Hiph. lead astray lit.
mentally = mislead
morally
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