Topic
Err; Error
36 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 6:3ISBE
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
- Leviticus 5:18ISBE
And 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.
- Numbers 15:22ISBE
¶ And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
- 1 Samuel 26:21ISBE
¶ Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
- 2 Samuel 6:7ISBE
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
- Job 19:4ISBE
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
- Psalms 19:12ISBE
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
- Psalms 95:10ISBE
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:
- Psalms 119:118ISBE
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
- Proverbs 14:22ISBE
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
- Proverbs 20:1ISBE
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
- Proverbs 20:25ISBE
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
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- Ecclesiastes 5:6 ISBE
- Isaiah 3:12 ISBE
- Isaiah 28:7 ISBE
- Isaiah 30:28 ISBE
- Isaiah 32:6 ISBE
- Isaiah 35:8 ISBE
- Jeremiah 23:12 ISBE
- Jeremiah 23:13 ISBE
- Ezekiel 45:20 ISBE
- Daniel 6:4 ISBE
- Amos 2:4 ISBE
- Mark 12:24 ISBE
- Mark 12:27 ISBE
- Romans 1:27 ISBE
- 1 Thessalonians 2:3 ISBE
- 1 Timothy 6:21 ISBE
- 2 Timothy 2:18 ISBE
- Hebrews 3:10 ISBE
- Hebrews 5:2 ISBE
- Hebrews 9:7 ISBE
- James 5:19 ISBE
- James 5:20 ISBE
- 1 John 4:6 ISBE
- Jude 1:11 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 37 references
ur, er'-er:
To err is in the Old Testament the translation of shaghah, and ta`ah, both of which mean literally,. "to wander," "to go astray." We have shaghah in 1Sa 26:21, "I have played the fool, and have erred"; Job 19:4, "Mine error remaineth with myself," i.e. "is my own concern," or, perhaps, "only injures myself"; Ps 119:118; Isa 28:7 the King James Version (thrice); ta`ah, Ps 95:10; Pr 14:22; Isa 35:8. It means also "to cause to err" (Isa 3:12; 30:28, "a bridle that causeth to err"; Jer 23:13,12; "Their lies (i.e. the unreal deities, creatures of their own imagination) have caused them to err," Am 2:4).
In the New Testament the word is generally planaomai, "to wander" (Mr 12:24,27; Heb 3:10; Jas 5:19); astocheo, "to miss the mark," "to swerve," occurs twice (1Ti 6:21; 2Ti 2:18).
Error in the Old Testament represents various words: sheghaghah, "mistake," "oversight" (Ec 5:6; compare Pr 20:25 and see INQUIRE); meshughah, with the same meaning, "wandering" (Job 19:4; compare Ps 19:12); shal, "rashness," "mistake" (2Sa 6:7, "God smote him there for his error," the Revised Version, margin "rashness"); shalu, Aramaic "mistake" (Da 6:4); to`ah, "injury" (Isa 32:6).
In the New Testament we have plane, "wandering" (Ro 1:27; Jas 5:20; 1 Joh 4:6; Jude 1:11, "the error of Balaam"); agnoema, "ignorance" (Heb 9:7, margin, Greek "ignorances"). For "is deceived" (Pr 20:1) the Revised Version (British and American) has "erreth," margin "or reeleth"; for "them that are out of the way" (Heb 5:2), "the ignorant and erring"; for "deceit" (1Th 2:3), "error."
The English word "error" has the same original meaning as the Hebrew and Greek main words, being derived from erro, "to wander." "To err is human," but there are errors of the heart as well as of the head. The familiar phrase just quoted seems to have its equivalent in the marginal rendering of Ge 6:3, "in their going astray they are flesh." Errors through ignorance are in the Bible distinguished from errors of the heart and willful errors (Le 5:18; Nu 15:22; Eze 45:20).
W. L. Walker
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.