Word

שָׁגַג

shâgag · H7683 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

to err, to go astray

Action by which humans act wrongly, though without the intention to do so

Examples
Leviticus 5:18 “He is then to bring to the priest a ram without defect from the flock, according to your assessment, as a guilt offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he committed unintentionally and did not know it, and it will be forgiven him.
Numbers 15:28 ‘And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who goes astray by an unintentional sin, making atonement for him so that he may be forgiven.
Job 12:16 “Strength and sound wisdom are with Him. One who goes astray and one who leads astray belong to Him.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

אֲנִיI 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1
Not stated (participle) 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with+ חַטָּאsinner, sinful 1
בin/on/with+ שְׁגָגָהunintentional sin 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

וֹhim 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

שָׁגָה shâgâh · H7686 · to stray, to wander, to misdirect: Both denote erring or going astray, and sinning through ignorance. They are distinct roots describing similar concepts of unintentional error or sin.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Sin002003003018: Leviticus 5:18 speaks of "his sin which he committed unintentionally," and Numbers 15:28 speaks of one who "goes astray by an unintentional sin," both directly attesting the unwitting sin this word denotes.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שָׁגַגshâgag · H7683שְׁגָגָה shᵉgâgâh · H7684 · unintentional sin, error, mistake · 19×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7683. shagag [שָׁגַג] verb go astray, commit sin or error (|| שׁוג שׁגה,); — Qal Perfect…

H7683. shagag
[שָׁגַג] verb go astray, commit sin or error (|| שׁוג שׁגה,); —
Qal Perfect שָׁגָג֛ Lev 5:18; Participle שֹׁגֵג Job 12:16; Psa 119:67; feminine שֹׁגֶ֫גֶת Num 15:23; —
1 err,. mentally Job 12:16.
2 sin ignorantly, inadvertently, Lev 5:18; Num 15:28 (P), compare Psa 119:67. — בְּשַׁגָּם Gen 6:3 perhaps Infinitive construct suffix, by reason of their going astray, see Ges§ 67p Ew Dr and others; > Vrss for that he also is flesh. אֲבִישַׁג.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Sin4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0