# H8582 תָּעָה

תָּעָה (tâʻâh), Strong’s H8582: to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both KJV: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant…

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*tâʻâh* — to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both

KJV: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make…

Occurs 50 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- תָּעָה vb. err
- Qal
- 1 physically wander about
- 2 of intoxication
- 3 ethically
- Niph.
- 1 be made to wander about, as a drunkard
- 2 ethically: be led astray
- Hiph.
- 1 physically cause to wander about
- 2 of intoxication
- 3 mentally and morally, cause to err, mislead

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 20:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/20?v=13) — When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me…
- [Genesis 21:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=14) — Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her…
- [Genesis 37:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=15) — A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
- [Exodus 23:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=4) — “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
- [2 Kings 21:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/21?v=9) — But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom the LORD…
- [Isaiah 3:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/3?v=12) — As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to…
- [Isaiah 9:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/9?v=15) — For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.
- [Isaiah 16:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/16?v=8) — For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice…
- [Isaiah 19:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/19?v=13) — The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, those…
- [Isaiah 19:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/19?v=14) — The LORD has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its…