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err

Meaning of “err”

To stray, wander, depart, or be led away from the right way, truth, command, knowledge, or judgment; to be mistaken or wrong.

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24 occurrences24 verses12 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: 2 Chronicles 33:9

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Isaiah 3:12
¶ 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.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 3:12 · retained source text

¶ 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.

Isaiah 9:16
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 9:16 · retained source text

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.

Isaiah 19:14
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.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 19:14 · retained source text

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.

Isaiah 28:7
¶ 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.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 28:7 · retained source text

¶ 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.

Isaiah 30:28
And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 30:28 · retained source text

And his breath as an ouerflowing streame, shall reach to the midst of the necke, to sift the nations with the sieue of vanitie: and there shalbe a bridle in the iawes of the people causing them to erre.

Isaiah 35:8
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 35:8 · retained source text

And an high way shalbe there, and away, and it shall be called the way of holinesse, the vncleane shall not passe ouer it, but it shall be for those: the wayfaringmen, though fooles, shall not erre therein.

1611 marginal noteOr, for he shalbe with them.

Isaiah 63:17
¶ O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 63:17 · retained source text

¶ O LORD, why hast thou made vs to erre from thy wayes? and hardened our heart from thy feare? Returne for thy seruants sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

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