Topic
Astray
8 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 23:4ISBE
¶ If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
- Psalms 58:3ISBE
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
- Psalms 119:176ISBE
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
- Isaiah 53:6ISBE
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Jeremiah 50:6ISBE
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
- Matthew 18:12ISBE
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
- Matthew 18:13ISBE
And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
- 1 Peter 2:25ISBE
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 9 references
a-stra' (ta`ah, "to wander," "to err"; planaomai, "to go astray," each carrying the idea of being lost): With one exception (Ex 23:4 "his ass going astray") used metaphorically of moral wandering, going astray in paths of error and sin, like "sheep going astray" (1Pe 2:25 the King James Version; Isa 53:6; Ps 119:176).
This wandering may be due
(1) to inherent evil (Ps 58:3);
(2) to false shepherds (Jer 50:6); contrast the beautiful and classic passage, Mt 18:12,13, the Son of man (verse 12) seeketh that which is gone astray. No word more vividly portrays sin as a straying, a separation from God. To be morally "astray" is to be "lost."
Dwight M. Pratt
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.