Lexicon
astocheó: to miss the mark
Original Word: ἀστοχέωPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: astocheó
Phonetic Spelling: (as-tokh-eh'-o)
Short Definition: I miss the mark, miss my aim, make a false aim
Definition: I miss the mark, miss my aim, make a false aim, fail.
HELPS word-Studies
795 astoxéō (from 1 /A "not" and stoxos, "a target") – properly, off-target (without aim); figuratively, out of line; out of step (cadence) with God.
795 /astoxéō ("swerve out of line") refers to missing God's preferred-will (2307 /thélēma), i.e. deviating from "God's target (line)" by walking "off line." 795 (astoxéō) emphasizes the divine disapproval that goes with walking "off (God's) line."
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
alpha (as a neg. prefix) and stochos (a mark)
Definitionto miss the mark
NASB Translationgone astray (2), straying (1).