שָׁגָה
šāgâ
go astray
Strong's H7686VerbHebrewTWOT 2325

שָׁגָה (šāgâ) is a Hebrew verb meaning go astray. It appears 21 times in 9 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H7686).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2325)

Range of meaning (TWOT 2325)go astray, err; stray, swerve, meander, reel, roll, commit sin of ignorance; lead astray, mislead; mistake, transgress, be enraptured; deceive, be ravished, sin through ignorance, wander
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

שָׁגָה verb: go astray, err

Strong's H7686 שָׁגָה: 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:(cause to) go astray, deceive, err, be ravished, sin through ignorance, (let, make to) wander.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Leviticus 4:13Numbers 15:22Deuteronomy 27:18

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