KJV dictionary & concordance
To stray, wander, depart, or be led away from the right way, truth, command, knowledge, or judgment; to be mistaken or wrong.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 2 Chronicles 33:9
Complete exact-word concordance
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
So Manasseh made Iudah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem to erre, and to doe worse then the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Fortie yeeres long was I grieued with this generation: and sayd, It is a people that doe erre in their heart: and they haue not knowen my wayes.
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed: which doe erre from thy Commandements.
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
Thou hast troden downe all them that erre from thy Statutes: for their deceit is falshood.
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
Doe they not erre that deuise euil? but mercy and trueth shall be to them that deuise good.
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
Cease, my sonne, to heare the instruction, that causeth to erre from the words of knowledge.
¶ As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
¶ As for my people, children are their oppressours, and women rule ouer them: O my people, they which lead thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy paths.
1611 marginal noteOr, they which call thee blessed.
1611 marginal noteHebr. swallow vp.
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
For the leaders of this people cause them to erre, and they that are ledde of them, are destroyed.
1611 marginal noteOr, they that call them blessed.
1611 marginal noteOr, they that are called blessed of them.
1611 marginal noteHeb. swallowed vp.
The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
The LORD hath mingled a peruerse spirit in the midst thereof: and they haue caused Egypt to erre in euery worke thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
1611 marginal noteHeb. a spirit of peruersities.
¶ But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
¶ But they also haue erred through wine, and through strong drinke are out of the way: the priest and the prophet haue erred through strong drinke, they are swallowed vp of wine: they are out of the way through strong drinke, they erre in vision, they stumble in iudgement.
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