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Strong's #8267: sheqer (pronounced sheh'-ker)

from 8266; an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial):--without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, + lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ

sheqer

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

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H8266



Usage:

This word is used 113 times:

Proverbs 19:5: " A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape."
Proverbs 19:9: " A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish."
Proverbs 20:17: "Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel."
Proverbs 21:6: "The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death."
Proverbs 25:14: "Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain."
Proverbs 25:18: "A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp"
Proverbs 26:28: " A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin."
Proverbs 29:12: "If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked."
Proverbs 31:30: "Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she"
Isaiah 9:15: "he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail."
Isaiah 28:15: "we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:"
Isaiah 32:7: "wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right."
Isaiah 44:20: "nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?"
Isaiah 57:4: "children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,"
Isaiah 59:3: "with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness."
Isaiah 59:13: "conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood."
Jeremiah 3:10: "me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 3:23: "Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD"
Jeremiah 5:2: "liveth; surely they swear falsely."
Jeremiah 5:31: "The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people"
Jeremiah 6:13: "and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely."
Jeremiah 7:4: "Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD,"
Jeremiah 7:8: "ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit."
Jeremiah 7:9: "murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after"
Jeremiah 8:8: "is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain."
Jeremiah 8:8: "made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain."
Jeremiah 8:10: "from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely."
Jeremiah 9:3: "their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth;"
Jeremiah 9:5: "they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity."
Jeremiah 10:14: "is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath"
Jeremiah 13:25: "the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood."
Jeremiah 14:14: "unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither"
Jeremiah 14:14: "unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of naught, and the deceit"
Jeremiah 16:19: "and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit."
Jeremiah 20:6: "thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies."
Jeremiah 23:14: "a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none"
Jeremiah 23:25: "the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed."
Jeremiah 23:26: "shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;"
Jeremiah 23:32: "Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell"
Jeremiah 23:32: "them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not,"
Jeremiah 27:10: "For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from"
Jeremiah 27:14: "for they prophesy a lie"
Jeremiah 27:15: "the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out,"
Jeremiah 27:16: "from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie"
Jeremiah 28:15: "people to trust in a lie."
Jeremiah 29:9: "For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith"
Jeremiah 29:21: "the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand"
Jeremiah 29:23: "with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which"
Jeremiah 29:31: "sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:"
Jeremiah 37:14: "Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened"









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