1) lie, deception, disappointment, falsehood 1a) deception (what deceives or disappoints or betrays one) 1b) deceit, fraud, wrong 1b1) fraudulently, wrongfully (as adverb) 1c) falsehood (injurious in testimony) 1c1) testify falsehood, false oath, swear falsely 1d) falsity (of false or self-deceived prophets) 1e) lie, falsehood (in general) 1e1) false tongue 1f) in vain
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H8267 — שֶׁ֫קֶר
she.qer · deception · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Exodus 5:9 · שָֽׁקֶר׃Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”Exodus 20:16 · שָֽׁקֶר׃ ס“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.Exodus 23:7 · שֶׁ֖קֶר“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.Leviticus 6:3 · שָׁ֑קֶרor has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a man does, sinning therein;Leviticus 6:5 · לַשֶּׁקֶר֒or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.Leviticus 19:12 · לַשָּׁ֑קֶר“‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.Deuteronomy 19:18 · שֶׁ֙קֶר֙ · שֶׁ֖קֶרand the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;1 Samuel 25:21 · לַשֶּׁ֨קֶרNow David had said, “Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.2 Samuel 18:13 · שֶׁ֔קֶרOtherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”1 Kings 22:22 · שֶׁ֔קֶרYahweh said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’1 Kings 22:23 · שֶׁ֔קֶרNow therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”2 Kings 9:12 · שֶׁ֔קֶרThey said, “That is a lie. Tell us now.” He said, “He said to me, ‘Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel.’”2 Chronicles 18:21 · שֶׁ֔קֶר“He said, ‘I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ “He said, ‘You will entice him, and will prevail also. Go forth, and do so.’2 Chronicles 18:22 · שֶׁ֔קֶר“Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”Job 13:4 · שָׁ֑קֶרBut you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.Job 36:4 · שֶׁ֣קֶרFor truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.Psalm 7:14 · שָֽׁקֶר׃Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.Psalm 27:12 · שֶׁ֝֗קֶרDon’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.Psalm 31:18 · שָׁ֥קֶרLet the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.Psalm 33:17 · שֶׁ֣קֶרA horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power.Psalm 35:19 · שֶׁ֑קֶרDon’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.Psalm 38:19 · שָֽׁקֶר׃But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.Psalm 52:3 · שֶׁ֓קֶר׀You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.Psalm 63:11 · שָֽׁקֶר׃But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.Psalm 69:4 · שֶׁ֑קֶרThose who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.Psalm 101:7 · שְׁקָרִ֑יםHe who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.Psalm 109:2 · שָֽׁקֶר׃for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.Psalm 119:29 · שֶׁ֭קֶרKeep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!Psalm 119:69 · שֶׁ֣קֶרThe proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.Psalm 119:78 · שֶׁ֣קֶרLet the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.Psalm 119:86 · שֶׁ֖קֶרAll of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!Psalm 119:104 · שָֽׁקֶר׃Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUNPsalm 119:118 · שֶׁ֝֗קֶרYou reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.Psalm 119:128 · שֶׁ֣קֶרTherefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEYPsalm 119:163 · שֶׁ֣קֶרI hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.Psalm 120:2 · שֶׁ֑קֶרDeliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.Psalm 144:8 · שָֽׁקֶר׃whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.Psalm 144:11 · שָֽׁקֶר׃Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.Proverbs 6:17 · שָׁ֑קֶרhaughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;Proverbs 6:19 · שָׁ֑קֶרa false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.Proverbs 10:18 · שָׁ֑קֶרHe who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.Proverbs 11:18 · שָׁ֑קֶרWicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.Proverbs 12:17 · שְׁקָרִ֣יםHe who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.Proverbs 12:19 · שָֽׁקֶר׃Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.Proverbs 12:22 · שָׁ֑קֶרLying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.Proverbs 13:5 · שֶׁ֭קֶרA righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.Proverbs 14:5 · שָֽׁקֶר׃A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.Proverbs 17:4 · שֶׁ֥קֶרAn evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.Proverbs 17:7 · שָֽׁקֶר׃Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.Proverbs 19:5 · שְׁ֭קָרִיםA false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.Proverbs 19:9 · שְׁ֭קָרִיםA false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.Proverbs 20:17 · שָׁ֑קֶרFraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.Proverbs 21:6 · שָׁ֑קֶרGetting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.Proverbs 25:14 · שָֽׁקֶר׃As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.Proverbs 25:18 · שָֽׁקֶר׃A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.Proverbs 26:28 · שֶׁ֭קֶרA lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.Proverbs 29:12 · שָׁ֑קֶרIf a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.Proverbs 31:30 · שֶׁ֣קֶרCharm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.Isaiah 9:15 · שֶּׁ֖קֶרThe elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.Isaiah 28:15 · וּבַשֶּׁ֥קֶר“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”Isaiah 32:7 · שֶׁ֔קֶרThe ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.Isaiah 44:20 · שֶׁ֖קֶרHe feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”Isaiah 57:4 · שָֽׁקֶר׃Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,Isaiah 59:3 · שֶׁ֔קֶרFor your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.Isaiah 59:13 · שָֽׁקֶר׃transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.Jeremiah 3:10 · בְּשֶׁ֖קֶרYet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.Jeremiah 3:23 · לַשֶּׁ֛קֶרTruly in vain is help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.Jeremiah 5:2 · לַשֶּׁ֖קֶרThough they say, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ surely they swear falsely.”Jeremiah 5:31 · בַשֶּׁ֗קֶרThe prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?Jeremiah 6:13 · שָּֽׁקֶר׃“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.Jeremiah 7:4 · הַשֶּׁ֖קֶרDon’t trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these.Jeremiah 7:8 · הַשָּׁ֑קֶרBehold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.Jeremiah 7:9 · לַשֶּׁ֖קֶרWill you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,Jeremiah 8:8 · לַשֶּׁ֣קֶר · שֶׁ֥קֶרHow do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.Jeremiah 8:10 · שָּֽׁקֶר׃Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.Jeremiah 9:3 · שֶׁ֔קֶרThey bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 9:5 · שֶׁ֖קֶרThey will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.Jeremiah 10:14 · שֶׁ֥קֶרEvery man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.Jeremiah 13:25 · בַּשָּֽׁקֶר׃This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.Jeremiah 14:14 · שֶׁ֚קֶר · שֶׁ֜קֶרThen Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn’t send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.Jeremiah 16:19 · שֶׁ֙קֶר֙Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.Jeremiah 20:6 · בַּשָּֽׁקֶר׃ סYou, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.Jeremiah 23:14 · בַּשֶּׁ֙קֶר֙In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.Jeremiah 23:25 · שֶׁ֖קֶרI have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.Jeremiah 23:26 · הַשָּׁ֑קֶרHow long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?Jeremiah 23:32 · שֶׁ֙קֶר֙ · בְּשִׁקְרֵיהֶ֖םBehold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn’t send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 27:10 · שֶׁ֔קֶרfor they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.Jeremiah 27:14 · שֶׁ֔קֶרDon’t listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.Jeremiah 27:15 · לַשָּׁ֑קֶרFor I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.Jeremiah 27:16 · שֶׁ֔קֶרAlso I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh’s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.Jeremiah 28:15 · שָֽׁקֶר׃Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.Jeremiah 29:9 · בְשֶׁ֔קֶרFor they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 29:21 · שָׁ֑קֶרThus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes;Jeremiah 29:23 · שֶׁ֔קֶרbecause they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them; and I am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 29:31 · שָֽׁקֶר׃Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie;Jeremiah 37:14 · שֶׁ֗קֶרThen Jeremiah said, It is false; I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.Jeremiah 40:16 · שֶׁ֛קֶרBut Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael.Jeremiah 43:2 · שֶׁ֚קֶרthen spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to live there;Jeremiah 51:17 · שֶׁ֥קֶרEvery man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.Hosea 7:1 · שָׁ֑קֶרWhen I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.Micah 2:11 · וָשֶׁ֣קֶרIf a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;” he would be the prophet of this people.Micah 6:12 · שָׁ֑קֶרHer rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.Habakkuk 2:18 · שָּׁ֑קֶר“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?Zechariah 5:4 · לַשָּׁ֑קֶרI will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”Zechariah 8:17 · שֶׁ֖קֶרand let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.Zechariah 10:2 · שֶׁ֔קֶרFor the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.Zechariah 13:3 · שֶׁ֥קֶרIt will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.Malachi 3:5 · לַשָּׁ֑קֶרI will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.