'Wandering' in the Bible

Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites, 'They are wandering around confused in the land -- the desert has closed in on them.'

"If you encounter your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return it to him.

Then you must affirm before the Lord your God, "A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

"Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, 'Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.'

he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from his wandering path will save that person's soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.