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Lexicon :: Strong's H8267 - šeqer

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שֶׁקֶר
Transliteration
šeqer
Pronunciation
sheh'-ker
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2461a

Strong’s Definitions

שֶׁקֶר sheqer, sheh'-ker; from H8266; an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial):—without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 113x

The KJV translates Strong's H8267 in the following manner: lie (28x), lying (21x), false (20x), falsehood (13x), falsely (13x), vain (5x), wrongfully (4x), deceitful (2x), deceit (1x), liar (1x), miscellaneous (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 113x
The KJV translates Strong's H8267 in the following manner: lie (28x), lying (21x), false (20x), falsehood (13x), falsely (13x), vain (5x), wrongfully (4x), deceitful (2x), deceit (1x), liar (1x), miscellaneous (5x).
  1. lie, deception, disappointment, falsehood

    1. deception (what deceives or disappoints or betrays one)

    2. deceit, fraud, wrong

      1. fraudulently, wrongfully (as adverb)

    3. falsehood (injurious in testimony)

      1. testify falsehood, false oath, swear falsely

    4. falsity (of false or self-deceived prophets)

    5. lie, falsehood (in general)

      1. false tongue

    6. in vain

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֶׁקֶר sheqer, sheh'-ker; from H8266; an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial):—without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.
STRONGS H8267: Abbreviations
שֶׁ֫קֶר 113 noun masculine deception, disappointment, falsehood; — שׁ׳ Exodus 23:7 + 64 times; שָׁ֑קֶר Exodus 5:9 + 42 times; plural שְׁקָרִים Psalm 101:7 + 3 times; suffix שִׁקְרֵיהֶם Jeremiah 23:22; —
1. deception, what deceives, disappoints, and betrays one : a molten image Jeremiah 10:14 = Jeremiah 51:17; gift Proverbs 25:14; grace of person Proverbs 31:30, etc.; אֹ֫רַח שׁ׳ Psalm 119:104; Psalm 119:128; דֶּ֫רֶח שׁ׳ Psalm 119:29; בטח בשׁ׳ Jeremiah 13:25; נחל שׁ׳ Jeremiah 16:19, compare also Psalm 7:15; Psalm 33:17; Psalm 119:118; Isaiah 28:15; לַשֶּׁקֶר for disappointment, in vain 1 Samuel 25:21; Jeremiah 3:23.
2. deceit, fraud, wrong : עשׂה (ל) שׁ׳ do or practise fraud, wrong Hosea 7:1; Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 8:8, 10; with בְ, 2 Samuel 18:13; שׁ׳פְּצֻלַּת Proverbs 11:18; לֶ֫חֶם שׁ׳ Proverbs 20:17 food got by fraud; זֶ֫רע שׁ׳ Isaiah 57:4; עֵט שׁ׳ Jeremiah 8:8; ילד שׁ׳ Psalm 7:15 (|| עמל); דרךְ לשׁון קשׁת שׁ׳ Jeremiah 9:2; בְּשׁ׳ Jeremiah 3:10 (|| בגד), adverb שׁקד fraudulently, wrongfully Psalm 35:19; Psalm 38:20; Psalm 69:5; Psalm 119:78; Psalm 119:86.
3. injurious falsehood, in testimony, especially in courts : עַד שֶׁקֶר Exodus 20:16 (E) Deuteronomy 19:18; Psalm 27:12; Proverbs 6:19; Proverbs 14:5; Proverbs 25:18; עֵד שׁקרים Proverbs 12:17; Proverbs 19:5, 9; ענה שׁ׳ Deuteronomy 19:18 testify falsehood; שְׁבֻעַת שׁ׳ Ze Deuteronomy 8:17 false oath; נשׁבע לשׁ׳ swear falsely Jeremiah 5:2 + 5 times; נשׁבע על שׁ׳ Leviticus 5:22; דבּר שׁ׳ Micah 6:12 + (see [דָּבַר], דָּבָר); אִמְרֵ י שׁ׳ Isaiah 32:7; שׂפת(י) שׁ׳ Psalm 31:19; Psalm 120:2; Proverbs 10:18; Proverbs 17:7; טפל שׁ׳ Job 13:4; Psalm 119:69, compare Psalm 119:163; absolute false ! 2 Kings 9:12; Jeremiah 37:14.
4. falsity, of false or self-deceived prophets: נכּא שׁ׳ prophesy falsely Jeremiah 14:14; Jeremiah 23:25, 26; Jeremiah 29:21; + ל person Jeremiah 27:10; Jeremiah 20:14, 16; לַשּׁ׳ נ׳ Jeremiah 20:15; בשׁ׳ נ׳ Jeremiah 5:31; Jeremiah 20:6; Jeremiah 29:9; מוֺרֶה שׁ׳ Isaiah 9:14; Habakkuk 2:18; חזה שׁ׳ Zechariah 10:2; חֲזוֺן שׁ׳ Jeremiah 14:14, etc., (+ 12 times); רוּח שׁ׳.
5. lie, falsehood, in general: דבר שׁ׳ Psalm 101:7 (|| רְמִיָּה); דְּבַר שׁ׳ Proverbs 13:5; of מִלִּים Job 36:4; לְשׁוֺן שׁ׳ false tongue Proverbs 6:17; Proverbs 12:19; Proverbs 21:6; Proverbs 26:28; Psalm 109:2; of lips Proverbs 12:22; אִישׁ שׁ׳ Proverbs 17:4 liar.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

5:9; 20:16; 23:7

Deuteronomy

8:17; 19:18; 19:18

1 Samuel

25:21

2 Samuel

18:13

2 Kings

9:12

Job

13:4; 36:4

Psalms

7:15; 7:15; 27:12; 31:19; 33:17; 35:19; 38:20; 69:5; 101:7; 101:7; 109:2; 119:29; 119:69; 119:78; 119:86; 119:104; 119:118; 119:128; 119:163; 120:2

Proverbs

6:17; 6:19; 10:18; 11:18; 12:17; 12:19; 12:22; 13:5; 14:5; 17:4; 17:7; 19:5; 19:9; 20:17; 21:6; 25:14; 25:18; 26:28; 31:30

Isaiah

9:14; 28:15; 32:7; 57:4

Jeremiah

3:10; 3:23; 5:2; 5:31; 6:13; 8:8; 8:8; 8:10; 9:2; 10:14; 13:25; 14:14; 14:14; 16:19; 20:6; 20:14; 20:15; 20:16; 23:22; 23:25; 23:26; 27:10; 29:9; 29:21; 37:14; 51:17

Hosea

7:1

Micah

6:12

Habakkuk

2:18

Zechariah

10:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8267 matches the Hebrew שֶׁקֶר (šeqer),
which occurs 113 times in 109 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Pro 19:9–Eze 13:22)

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:9 -

A [fn]false H8267 witness will not go unpunished,

And he who breathes out lies will perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:17 -

Bread obtained by lying H8267 is sweet to a man,

But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:6 -

Working for treasures by a lying H8267 tongue

Is a fleeting breath, by those who pursue death.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:14 -

Like clouds and wind without rain

Is a man who boasts [fn]of his gifts falsely H8267.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:18 -

Like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow

Is a man who bears [fn]false H8267 witness against his neighbor.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:28 -

A lying H8267 tongue hates [fn]those it crushes,

And a flattering mouth works ruin.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:12 -

If a ruler pays attention to a lying H8267 word,

All his ministers become wicked.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:30 -

Shin

[fn]Charm is deceitful H8267 and beauty is vain,

But a woman who [fn]fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:15 -

The head is the elder and the [fn]highly respected man,

And the prophet who teaches falsehood H8267 is the tail.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:15 -

Because you have said, “We have cut a covenant with death,

And with Sheol we have made a [fn]pact.

The overflowing [fn]scourge will not reach us when it passes by,

For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have hidden ourselves with lying H8267.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:7 -

As for a rogue, his weapons are evil;

He counsels wicked schemes

To wreak destruction on the afflicted with lying H8267 words,

Even though the needy one speaks justly.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:20 - He [fn]feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, and he cannot say, “Is there not a lie H8267 in my right hand?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:4 -

“Against whom do you jest?

Against whom do you open wide your mouth

And stick out your tongue?

Are you not children of transgression,

Seed of lying H8267,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:3 -

For your hands are defiled with blood

And your fingers with iniquity;

Your lips have spoken a lie H8267;

Your tongue mutters unrighteousness.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:13 -

Transgressing and denying Yahweh,

And turning back from our God,

Speaking oppression and revolt,

Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying H8267 words.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:10 - “Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in lying H8267,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:23 -

“Surely, the hills are a lie H8267,

A tumult on the mountains.

Surely in Yahweh our God

Is the salvation of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:2 -

“And if they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’

Then they swear to a lie H8267.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:31 -

The prophets prophesy with lying H8267,

And the priests have dominion [fn]by their own hand;

And My people love it so!

But what will you do at the end of it?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:13 -

“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them,

Everyone is greedy for gain,

And from the prophet even to the priest

Everyone practices lying H8267.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:4 - “Do not trust in lying H8267 words, saying, ‘[fn]This is the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:8 -

“Behold, you are trusting in lying H8267 words to no avail.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:9 - “Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear while lying H8267, and burn incense to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:8 -

“How can you say, ‘We are wise,

And the law of Yahweh is with us’?

But behold, the lying H8267 pen of the scribes

Has made it into a lie H8267.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:10 -

“Therefore I will give their wives to others,

Their fields to [fn]new possessors,

Because from the least even to the greatest

Everyone is greedy for gain;

From the prophet even to the priest

Everyone practices lying H8267.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:3 -

“They bend their tongue like their bow;

Lies H8267 and unfaithfulness prevail in the land,

For they go onward from evil to evil,

And they do not know Me,” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:5 -

“Everyone deceives his neighbor

And does not speak the truth;

They have taught their tongue to speak lies H8267;

They weary themselves committing iniquity.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:14 -

Every man is senseless, devoid of knowledge;

Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven images;

For his molten images are a lie H8267,

And there is no breath in them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:25 -

“This is your lot, the portion measured to you

From Me,” declares Yahweh,

“Because you have forgotten Me

And trusted in lies H8267.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:14 - Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies H8267 in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a vision of lies H8267, divination, futility, and the deception of their own hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 -

O Yahweh, my strength and my strong defense,

And my refuge in the day of distress,

To You the nations will come

From the ends of the earth and say,

“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies H8267,

Futility and [fn]things of no profit.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:6 - ‘And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into captivity; and you will enter Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies H8267.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:14 -

“Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen an appalling thing:

The committing of adultery and walking in lying H8267;

And they strengthen the hands of evildoers,

So that no one has turned back from his evil.

All of them have become to Me like Sodom,

And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:25 -

“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy a lie H8267 in My name, saying, ‘I had a dream, I had a dream!’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:26 - “How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy a lie H8267, even these prophets of the deception of their own heart,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:32 - “Behold, I am against those who have prophesied lying H8267 dreams,” declares Yahweh, “and who recounted them and led My people astray by their lying H8267 and reckless boasting; yet I did not send them, and I did not command them, and they do not furnish this people the slightest benefit,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:10 - “For they prophesy a lie H8267 to you in order to remove you far from your land; and I will banish you, and you will perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:14 - “So do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they prophesy a lie H8267 to you;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:15 - for I have not sent them,” declares Yahweh, “but they prophesy a lie H8267 in My name, in order that I may banish you and that you may perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:16 -

Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says Yahweh: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the house of Yahweh will now shortly be returned from Babylon’; for they are prophesying a lie H8267 to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:15 - Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen now, Hananiah, Yahweh has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie H8267.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:9 - ‘For they prophesy a lie H8267 to you in My name; I have not sent them,’ declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:21 -

“Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you falsely H8267 in My name, ‘Behold, I will give them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will strike them down before your eyes.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:23 - because they have acted with wicked foolishness in Israel and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have spoken words in My name falsely H8267, which I did not command them; and I am He who knows and am a witness,” declares Yahweh.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:31 - “Send to all the exiles, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, although I did not send him, and he has made you trust in a lie H8267,”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:14 - But Jeremiah said, “A lie H8267! I am not [fn]going over to the Chaldeans”; yet he would not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:16 - But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “Do not do this thing, for you are telling a lie H8267 about Ishmael.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:2 - Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are speaking a lie H8267! Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You are not to enter Egypt to sojourn there’;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:17 -

All mankind is senseless, devoid of knowledge;

Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image,

For his molten images are a lie H8267,

And there is no breath in them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:22 - “Because you disheartened the righteous with falsehood H8267 when I did not cause him grief, but have strengthened the hands of the wicked not to turn from his evil way and preserve his life,

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