תָּעָה tâʻâh — to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, stagger, wander, be out of the way.
a primitive root; to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both.
tâʻâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 13Participle (active) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Infinitive construct 3Wayyiqtol 1Jussive 1
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer–sheba.
And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 8Perfect (qatal) 6Participle (active) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1Infinitive construct 1
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›
