Definition

to stray (causatively, mislead), usually (figuratively) to mistake, especially (morally) to transgress; by extension (through the idea of intoxication) to reel, (figuratively) be enraptured

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• (cause to) go astray
• deceive
• err
• be ravished
• sin through ignorance
• (let
• make to) wander

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.