תָּעָה
tâʻâh · taw-aw'
to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both
- to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively)
- also, causative of both
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.
Letters
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the mark, the covenant sign › to see and know › to reveal, behold
The mark, the covenant sign that works to see and know that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of תָּעָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
50 occurrences · 50 OT · 0 NT · 46 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to err4 · 12%
- went astray4 · 12%
- and causeth them to wander2 · 6%
- they wandered2 · 6%
- caused me to wander1 · 3%
- and wandered1 · 3%
- and, behold, he was wandering1 · 3%
- going astray1 · 3%
- seduced1 · 3%
- made1 · 3%
- and he maketh them to stagger1 · 3%
- let not him that is deceived1 · 3%
- they wander1 · 3%
- they go astray1 · 3%
- that do err1 · 3%
- for me: yet i erred1 · 3%
- i have gone astray1 · 3%
- go not astray1 · 3%
- erreth1 · 3%
- seduceth1 · 3%
- do they not err1 · 3%
- that wandereth1 · 3%
- thee cause thee to err1 · 3%
- cause them to err1 · 3%
- they have also seduced1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.