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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Wandering

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

6exact KJV occurrences 4Old Testament 2New Testament 6books containing the word 5mapped Strong's IDs 5occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 37:15

And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Jude 1:13

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where wandering appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

GreekG4107
πλανήτης

planḗtēs · plan-ay'-tace

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

a rover ("planet"), i.e. (figuratively) an erratic teacher

Strong's KJV usage: :--wandering.

Strong's first: Jude 1:13Strong's last: Jude 1:13

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HebrewH1980
הָלַךְ

hâlak · haw-lak'

1 times translated as this KJV form497 total Strong's occurrences

v

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

Strong's KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, be eased, enter, exercise (self), follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, × more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), send, speedily, spread, still, surely, tale-bearer, travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-) faring man, × be weak, whirl.

Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 6:9Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 6:9

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HebrewH5074
נָדַד

nâdad · naw-dad'

1 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to wave to and fro (rarely to flap up and down); figuratively, to rove, flee, or (causatively) to drive away

Strong's KJV usage: chase (away), × could not, depart, flee (× apace, away), (re-) move, thrust away, wander (abroad, -er, -ing).

Strong's first: Isaiah 16:2Strong's last: Isaiah 16:2

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HebrewH5110
נוּד

nûwd · nood

1 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences

v

to nod, i.e. waver; figuratively, to wander, flee, disappear; also (from shaking the head in sympathy), to console, deplore, or (from tossing the head in scorn) taunt

Strong's KJV usage: bemoan, flee, get, mourn, make to move, take pity, remove, shake, skip for joy, be sorry, vagabond, way, wandering.

Strong's first: Proverbs 26:2Strong's last: Proverbs 26:2

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HebrewH8582
תָּעָה

tâʻâh · taw-aw'

1 times translated as this KJV form51 total Strong's occurrences

v

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.

Strong's first: Genesis 37:15Strong's last: Genesis 37:15

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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6 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Genesis 37:15
H8582

And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

Proverbs 26:2
H5110

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

Ecclesiastes 6:9
H1980

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Isaiah 16:2
H5074

For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

1 Timothy 5:13
no direct Strong's tag

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Jude 1:13
G4107

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

wandering

WANDERING, participle present tense Roving; rambling; deviating from duty.

WANDERING, noun

1. Peregrination; a traveling without a settled course.

2. Aberration; mistaken way; deviation from rectitude; as a wandering from duty.

3. A roving of the mind or thoughts from the point or business in which one ought to be engaged.

4. The roving of the mind in a dream.

5. The roving of the mind in delirium.

6. Uncertainty; want of being fixed.

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.

SOURCE & METHOD

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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
Webster 1828Historical English dictionary material is reproduced as dictionary data, not as inspired Scripture or TWBC commentary.
Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.