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# שָׁגַג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7683

**go astray** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

go astray [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7683/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁגַג: vb. go astray, commit sin error [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7683/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. go astray, commit sin or error (‖ שׁגה, שׁוג);— Pf. שָׁגָג֛ Lv 5:18; Pt. שֹׁגֵג Jb 12:16 ψ 119:67; f. שֹׁגֶ֫גֶת Nu 15:28;— error, mentally Jb 12:16. sin ignorantly, inadvertently, Lv 5:18; Nu 15:28 (P), cf. ψ 119:67.—בְּשַׁגָּם Gn 6:3 perhaps Inf. cstr. sf., by reason of their going astray, v. Ges§ 67 p Ew Dr al.; \> Vrss for that he also is flesh. אֲבִישַׁג, v. p. 4b.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who\] goes astray (1); \[was\] going astray (1); he has sinned inadvertently (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:67](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.67/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.67/#tree)

טֶ֣רֶם אֶ֭עֱנֶה אֲנִ֣י שֹׁגֵ֑ג וְ֝עַתָּ֗ה אִמְרָתְךָ֥ שָׁמָֽרְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* before I.was.afflicted I \[was\].going.astray and now word your I.keep

*JPS 1917:* Before I was afflicted, I did err; but now I observe Thy word.

[Job 12:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.16/#tree)

עִ֭מּוֹ עֹ֣ז וְתֽוּשִׁיָּ֑הל֝֗וֹ שֹׁגֵ֥ג וּמַשְׁגֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].with him strength and sound.wisdom \[belong\].to him \[one.who\].goes.astray and \[one.who\].leads.astray

*JPS 1917:* With Him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7683.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7683/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).