Exodus 23:4
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
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Astray
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2 Peter 2:15
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
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7 occurrences in 4 verses.
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תָּעָה
tâʻâh · taw-aw'
12 times translated as this KJV form51 total Strong's occurrences
to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both
Strong's KJV usage: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 23:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 48:11
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planáō · plan-ah'-o
5 times translated as this KJV form51 total Strong's occurrences
to (properly, cause to) roam (from safety, truth, or virtue)
Strong's KJV usage: :--go astray, deceive, err, seduce, wander, be out of the way.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 18:12Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:15
Open full G4105 profile →שָׁגָה
shâgâh · shaw-gaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to stray (causatively, mislead), usually (figuratively) to mistake, especially (morally) to transgress; by extension (through the idea of intoxication) to reel, (figuratively) be enraptured
Strong's KJV usage: (cause to) go astray, deceive, err, be ravished, sin through ignorance, (let, make to) wander.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 5:23Strong's last: Proverbs 28:10
Open full H7686 profile →נָדַח
nâdach · naw-dakh'
1 times translated as this KJV form52 total Strong's occurrences
to push off; used in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (to expel, mislead, strike, inflict, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: banish, bring, cast down (out), chase, compel, draw away, drive (away, out, quite), fetch a stroke, force, go away, outcast, thrust away (out), withdraw.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 22:1Strong's last: Deuteronomy 22:1
Open full H5080 profile →שָׁגַג
shâgag · shaw-gag'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to stray, i.e. (figuratively) sin (with more or less apology)
Strong's KJV usage: × also for that, deceived, err, go astray, sin ignorantly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 119:67Strong's last: Psalms 119:67
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H8582
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
H5080
Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.
H8582
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
H7683
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
H8582
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
H7686
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
H8582
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
H7686
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
H8582
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
H8582
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
H8582
That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
H8582
And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
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And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
H8582
But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
H8582
It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
H8582
It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
H8582
It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
G4105
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
G4105
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
G4105
And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
G4105
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
G4105
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
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astray
ASTRA'Y, adverb [a and stray. See Stray.]
Out of the right way or proper place, both in a literal and figurative sense. In morals and religion, it signifies wandering from the path of rectitude, from duty and happiness.
Before I was afflicted, I want astray Psalms 129:1.
Cattle go astray when they leave their proper owners or inclosures. See Deuteronomy 22:1.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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