11 occurrences

'Wandering' in the Bible

So Cain went away from the [manifested] presence of the Lord, and lived in the land of Nod [wandering in exile], east of Eden.

Verse ConceptsAbel and CaineastEdenDriven From God's PresenceLeaving God's PresenceGardens

Now a certain man found Joseph, and saw that he was wandering around and had lost his way in the field; so the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

Verse ConceptsWandererswandering

And you shall say before the Lord your God, ‘My father [Jacob] was a wandering Aramean, and he [along with his family] went down to Egypt and lived there [as strangers], few in number; but while there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.

Verse ConceptsNationalismNomadsWanderersPeople MultiplyingFew Peoplesyriawandering

They do no unrighteousness;They walk in His ways.

Verse ConceptsSinlessnessWalking In The Ways Of God

Like the sparrow in her wandering, like the swallow in her flying,So the curse without cause does not come and alight [on the undeserving].

Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsSwallowsSparrowsThose FlyingBirdsflyingcurseswandering

What the eyes see [enjoying what is available] is better than [craving] what the soul desires. This too is futility and chasing after the wind.

Verse ConceptsUseless EndeavourThe Faculty Of SightFocusstrivingwanderingFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

For like wandering birds or scattered nestlings,The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the [river] Arnon.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsArnonFordsRiver ArnonBirdswandering

For the fields of Heshbon have languished and withered, and the vines of Sibmah as well;The lords of the nations have trampled down [Moab’s] choice vine branches,Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered into the wilderness;Its tendrils stretched out, they passed over [the shores of] the [Dead] Sea.

Verse ConceptsDestroying Vineyards

“Then [Zion], you will say in your heart,‘Who has borne me these children,Since I have been bereaved of my childrenAnd am barren, an exile and a wanderer?And who has reared these?Indeed, I was left alone;From where then did these children come?’”

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesAttitudes To BarrennessBereavementwandering

Remember [O Lord] my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall (bitterness).

Verse ConceptsWanderersBitter Foodlonliness

wild waves of the sea, flinging up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of deep darkness has been reserved forever.

Verse ConceptsBlackAstronomyRageColors, BlackHopelessnessThe Fate Of The WickedWanderersWavesEternal JudgementFoamsGod KeepsOuter DarknessShame Has Comewandering

Bible Theasaurus

Betray (35 instances)
Cheat (12 instances)
Drift (8 instances)
Meander (1 instance)
Nomadic (1 instance)
Range (19 instances)
Roving (6 instances)
Stray (22 instances)
Thread (31 instances)
Vagabond (5 instances)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נדד 
Nadad 
Usage: 28

נוּד 
Nuwd 
Usage: 24

נוּע 
Nuwa` 
Usage: 40

צעה 
Tsa`ah 
Usage: 5

שׁגה 
Shagah 
Usage: 21

תּעה 
Ta`ah 
err , astray , wander , seduced , stagger , out of the way , away , deceived ,
Usage: 50

περιέρχομαι 
Perierchomai 
Usage: 4

πλανάω 
Planao 
deceive , err , go astray , seduce , wander , be out of the way
Usage: 25

πλανήτης 
Planetes 
Usage: 1