שֶׁקֶר sheqer

Hebrew word for “deception” · Strong’s H8267 · used 113 times in 109 verses

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Meaning

1) lie, deception, disappointment, falsehood;

How it is translated

Glosses given for sheqer in context, with how often each is used:

• falsehood 92
• deception 14
• lies 4
• vain hope 1
• falsehoods 1
• lie 1

Where it is used

Also in 7 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Psalms 119 (8), Jeremiah 23 (4), Jeremiah 27 (4), Jeremiah 29 (4), Proverbs 12 (3), Jeremiah 7 (3), Leviticus 6 (2), 1 Kings 22 (2), 2 Chronicles 18 (2), Psalms 144 (2)

Forms

• שׁקר 87
• לשׁקר 10
• בשׁקר 6
• שׁקרים 4
• השׁקר 3
• ובשׁקר 1
• בשׁקריהם 1
• ושׁקר 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with sheqer more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נָבָא nava “to prophesy” 14
• נָבִיא navi “prophet” 16
• עֵד ed “witness” 11
• דָבַר davar “to speak” 21
• לָשׁוֹן lashon “tongue” 12
• פֶּה peh “lip” 12
• שָׂנֵא sane “to hate” 9
• שָׂפָה saphah “lips” 8
• שָׁבַע shava “to swear” 8
• כֶם khem “you” 10
• נְאֻם neum “utterance” 9
• פּוּחַ puach “to breathe” 5

Key verses

The verses using sheqer that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Isaiah 9:15 — The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
• Isaiah 44:20 — He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
• Isaiah 59:13 — In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of…
• Jeremiah 5:31 — The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
• Jeremiah 6:13 — For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth…
• Jeremiah 7:9 — Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
• Jeremiah 9:3 — And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know…
• Jeremiah 16:19 — O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say,…
• Jeremiah 23:14 — I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none…
• Micah 2:11 — If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
• Habakkuk 2:18 — What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to…
• Malachi 3:5 — And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.