sheqer (שֶׁקֶר) — Hebrew word meaning “deception”

שֶׁקֶר

sheqer

deception

Strong's H8267NounHebrewTWOT 2461a

שֶׁקֶר (sheqer) is a Hebrew noun meaning deception. It appears 113 times in 19 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H8267).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2461a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 2461a)deception, disappointment, falsehood; deceit, fraud, wrong; falsity, prophets; lie; untruth, sham; without a cause, deceitful, false, falsely, feignedly, liar, lying, vain, wrongfully

Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

שֶׁ֫קֶר noun, masculine: deception, disappointment, falsehood

1.deception, what deceives, disappoints
2.deceit, fraud, wrong
3.injurious falsehood, in testimony
4.falsity, of false or self-deceived prophets
5.lie, falsehood, in genitive

Strong's H8267 שֶׁקֶר: an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
KJV:without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 2461: שָׁקַר šāqar — do, deal falsely; cheat, be untrue; fail, lie

שָׁקַר šāqar — do falsely

See it in Scripture

Exodus 5:9 Leviticus 19:12 Deuteronomy 19:18

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