Quick Definition
to swerve
Strong's Definition
to detrude, i.e. (intransitively and figuratively) become derelict (wrongly practise; namely, idolatry)
Derivation: or (by permutation) סוּט; a primitive root;
KJV Usage: turn aside to.
TWOT Reference: 2240
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) to swerve, fall away
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to swerve, fall away
1a2) those falling away (participle)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שׂוּט (sut) — to swerve. 1) to swerve, fall away 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to swerve, fall away 1a2) those falling away (participle)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m pl · שׂוט
verb · שֵׂט · סֵטִים
Unfaithful | verb qal
to go astray = action by which humans depart from the right pattern of behavior
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[שׂוּט] vb. swerve, fall away;—Qal ψ 40:5 ref