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# שָׁגָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7686

**go astray** — used 21 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/1513/7686/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁגָה: vb. go astray, error [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7686/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. go astray, error (Aramaic שְׁגָא, ܫܓܳܐ id.);— Pf. 1 s. שָׁגִיתִי Jb 6:24; 19:4, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִשְׁגֶּה Pr 5:23, etc.; Inf. cstr. שְׁגוֹת 19:27; Pt. שֹׁגֶה Ez 45:20; Pr 20:1, etc.;— error, stray, of flock Ez 34:6 (fig.). swerve, meander, reel or roll, in drunkenness, ב of drink Is 28:7(×2); = be intoxicated, Pr 20:1; so with (בּ) love 5:19, 20; שׁ׳ בָּרֹאֶה Is 28:7. go astray, morally, 1 S 26:21; Pr 5:23; Jb 6:24; 19:4, + 1 S 14:24 (reading שׁ׳ שְׁגָגָה) Th We Dr Now (after 𝔊; otherwise Bu HPS); c. מן, of י׳’s commands ψ 119:21, 118, מִן of words of knowledge Pr 19:27. specif. commit sin of ignorance, inadvertence Lv 4:13; Nu 15:22 (P) Ez 45:20 (cf. שׁגג). lead astray: lit., Pt. מַשְׁגֶּה Dt 27:18 (בַּדֶּרֶךְ). מַשׁ׳ mentally = mislead Jb 12:16. morally, Pt. Pr 28:10 (רָ֑ע בְּדֶרֶךְ); Impf. 2 ms. sf. תַּשְׁגֵּנִי, c. מן of God’s commands ψ 119:10; + perhaps Jb 12:23 leadeth nations astray (מַשְׂגִּיא in Kenn., Field).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who\] leads astray (3); they reeled (3); I have erred (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.21/#tree)

גָּ֭עַרְתָּ זֵדִ֣ים אֲרוּרִ֑ים הַ֝שֹּׁגִים מִמִּצְוֺתֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* you.rebuke arrogant.\[people\] cursed.\[people\] \[who\].go astray from commandments your

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, that do err from Thy commandments.

[Job 19:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.4/#tree)

וְאַף־אָמְנָ֥ם שָׁגִ֑יתִי אִ֝תִּ֗י תָּלִ֥ין מְשׁוּגָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and even truly I.have.erred with me it.lodges error my

*JPS 1917:* And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7686.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7686/): 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).