shaga · go astray, err

What it means

shaga (שָׁגָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “go astray, err”.

Without realizing it; also stagger.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To wander from the way or command, often unintentionally.
2. To stagger from wine.
3. To be captivated by love.
4. To lead another astray.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• stagger ×3
• I have erred ×2
• errs ×2
• who stray ×2
• Whoever leads ×1
• have erred ×1
• he who misleads ×1
• he will be lost ×1
• let me stray ×1
• may you be lost ×1
• others ×6

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×6
• Isaiah×3
• Ezekiel×2

• Leviticus 4:13

  And if the whole community of Israel errs and the matter is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of all the commandments of YHWH concerning things that should not be done, and they become guilty,

• Numbers 15:22

  And when you err and do not do all these commandments that YHWH spoke to Moses,

• Deuteronomy 27:18

  ‘Cursed be he who misleads a blind man on the way.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• 1 Samuel 26:21

  Saul said, “I have sinned. Come back, my son David, for I will not harm you again, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Look, I have acted foolishly and have erred very greatly.”

• Job 6:24

  Teach me, and I will be silent; and make me understand how I have erred.

• Job 12:16

  With him are power and success; to him belong the one who errs and the one who makes others err.

• Job 19:4

  And even if indeed I have erred, my error spends the night with me.

• Psalms 119:10

  With all my heart I have sought you; do not let me stray from your commandments.

• Psalms 119:21

  You have rebuked the insolent, the cursed, those who stray from your commandments.

• Psalms 119:118

  You have rejected all who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is a lie.

• Proverbs 5:19

  a loving doe and a graceful mountain goat; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; in her love may you be lost always.

• Proverbs 5:20

  And why would you be lost, my son, with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?

• Proverbs 5:23

  He will die for lack of correction, and in the greatness of his folly he will be lost.

• Proverbs 19:27

  Stop, my son, listening to correction only to stray from the sayings of knowledge.

• Proverbs 20:1

  A scoffer is wine, a brawler intoxicating drink, and anyone who strays by it is not wise.

• Proverbs 28:10

  Whoever leads the upright astray into an evil way into his own pit he will fall, but the blameless will inherit good.

• Isaiah 28:7

  But these also stagger with wine and stray with intoxicating drink; priest and prophet stagger with intoxicating drink; they are swallowed by wine, they stray because of intoxicating drink; they stagger in vision, they stumble in giving verdict.

• Ezekiel 34:6

  My sheep wander over all the mountains and on every high hill; and over all the face of the earth my sheep were scattered, and there is no one who inquires and no one who seeks.

• Ezekiel 45:20

  And so you shall do on the seventh of the month for anyone who errs and for the simple; and you shall make expiation for the house.

And 2 more times.