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תּוֹעָה

tôwʻâh · H8442 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. confusion

    Literally: wandering (in one's mind); hence: state in which humans are uncertain about what is happening and what they should do

    Examples

    Nehemiah 4:8 So all of them conspired together to come to fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.

  2. leading astray

    Literally: making to wander; hence: causative action by which humans cause other humans to depart from a morally and ethically correct course

    Examples

    Isaiah 32:6 For a fool speaks nonsense, And his heart inclines toward wickedness: To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the LORD, To keep the hungry person unsatisfied And to withhold drink from the thirsty.

How it’s used In 1 role

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the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

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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Semantic domains 2 entries
Non-Know002004002008
This noun denotes wandering in confusion, as in Nehemiah 4:2's mocking question about whether the feeble Jews can revive stones out of the confused heaps of rubble.
Unfaithful002001002027
The noun also denotes error spoken against the LORD, as in Isaiah 32:6's condemnation of the fool who practices ungodliness and speaks error against the LORD.
Word family 2 words

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

תָּעָה tâʻâh · H8582 · to wander, to stray, to make wander · 50×תּוֹעָהtôwʻâh · H8442
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8442. toah תּוֺעָה noun feminine wandering, error; — 1 error in morals and religion,…
H8442. toah
תּוֺעָה noun feminine wandering, error; —
1 error in morals and religion, with דִּבֶּר, Isa 32:6.
2 confusion, disturbance, with עָשָׂה, Neh 4:2.
תֹּ֫עוּ see תֹּעִי. תְּעוּדָה see [עוד] below

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Unfaithful1 occurrenceNon-Know1 occurrence

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

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