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Strong’s H7683 · Hebrew

שָׁגַג

shâgag · shaw-gag'

Origin a primitive root;

Meaning to stray, i.e. (figuratively) sin (with more or less apology)

In the King James Version [idiom] also for that, deceived, err, go astray, sin ignorantly.

In 4 verses of the King James Version

  1. Leviticus 5:18And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.
  2. Numbers 15:28And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
  3. Job 12:16With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
  4. Psalms 119:67Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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