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Stray [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Any domestic animal that has left an inclosure or its proper place and company, and wanders at large or is lost. The laws provide that strays shall be taken up, impounded and advertised.

2. Seeing him wander about, I took him up for a stray

3. The act of wandering. [Little used.]

Stray [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate or go out of the way. We say, to stray from the path or road into the forest or wood.

2. To wander from company, or from the proper limits; as, a sheep strays from the flock; a horse strays from an inclosure.

3. To rove; to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err; to deviate.

4. We have erred and strayed--

5. To wander; to rove at large; to play free and unconfined.

6. Lo, the glad gales oer all her beauties stray breathe on her lips and in her bosom play.

7. To wander; to run a serpentine course.

8. Where Thames among the wanton valley strays.

Stray [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To mislead. [Not in use.]

Stray [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

2. To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.

3. Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.

Stray [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.

2. The act of wandering or going astray.

Stray [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep.

Stray [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cause to stray.

Strayed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Strayer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A wanderer. [Little used.]

Strayer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who strays; a wanderer.

Straying [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wandering; roving; departing from the direct course, from the proper inclosure, or from the path of duty.

Straying [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Exodus 22:5

If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.

Exodus 23:4

If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.

Leviticus 4:13

And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;

Now if the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly so that they violate any of the LORD’s commandments and incur guilt by doing what is forbidden,

Numbers 15:22

And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,

Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—

Deuteronomy 22:1

Thou shalt not see the brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.

1 Samuel 6:12

And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth-shemesh.

And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.

Psalms 44:18

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.

Psalms 119:10

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

Psalms 119:21

Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

You rebuke the arrogant— the cursed who stray from Your commandments.

Psalms 119:110

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.

Psalms 119:118

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain.

Psalms 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

Proverbs 7:25

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

Proverbs 19:27

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Proverbs 21:16

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Proverbs 27:8

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.

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.

And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it— only those who walk in the Way— and fools will not stray onto it.

Isaiah 47:15

Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

This is what they are to you— those with whom you have labored and traded from youth— each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.

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.

Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?