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H7686 שָׁגָה (shâgâh) shaw-gaw'
Hebrew
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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

EZK 34:6

Move | verb hif

to misdirect = causative action by which humans cause other humans to go in the wrong direction

DEU 27:18

Unsteady | verb qal | ≈ תעה

to stray, to stagger = action by which humans move about unsteadily and without sense of direction

ISA 28:7 · ISA 28:7

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

JOB 12:16 · PSA 119:10 · PRO 28:10

Reinier de Blois

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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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