# שֶׁקֶר (sheqer)

Israeli respelling: she-qer. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8267. 109 Old Testament occurrences.

an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)

King James renderings: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, [phrase] lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/sheqer-h8267

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/5/9) — Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
- [Exodus 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/20/16) — Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
- [Exodus 23:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/7) — Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
- [Leviticus 6:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/6/3) — Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
- [Leviticus 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/6/5) — Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and gi…
- [Leviticus 19:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/12) — And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
- [Deuteronomy 19:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/19/18) — And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brot…
- [1 Samuel 25:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/21) — Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertaine…
- [2 Samuel 18:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/18/13) — Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have s…
- [1 Kings 22:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/22) — And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he…
- [1 Kings 22:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/23) — Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning th…
- [2 Kings 9:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/12) — And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king…
- [2 Chronicles 18:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/18/21) — And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shal…
- [2 Chronicles 18:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/18/22) — Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.
- [Job 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/4) — But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
- [Job 36:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/4) — For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
- [Psalms 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/14) — Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
- [Psalms 27:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/27/12) — Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
- [Psalms 31:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/31/18) — Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
- [Psalms 33:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/33/17) — An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
- [Psalms 35:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/19) — Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
- [Psalms 38:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/38/19) — But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
- [Psalms 52:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/52/3) — Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
- [Psalms 63:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/63/11) — But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
- [Psalms 69:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/4) — They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are migh…
- [Psalms 101:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/101/7) — He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
- [Psalms 109:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/2) — For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
- [Psalms 119:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/29) — Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
- [Psalms 119:69](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/69) — The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
- [Psalms 119:78](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/78) — Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
- [Psalms 119:86](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/86) — All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
- [Psalms 119:104](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/104) — Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
- [Psalms 119:118](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/118) — Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
- [Psalms 119:128](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/128) — Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
- [Psalms 119:163](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/163) — I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
- [Psalms 120:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/120/2) — Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
- [Psalms 144:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/144/8) — Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
- [Psalms 144:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/144/11) — Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
- [Proverbs 6:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/17) — A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
- [Proverbs 6:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/19) — A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- [Proverbs 10:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/18) — He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
- [Proverbs 11:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/18) — The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
- [Proverbs 12:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/17) — He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
- [Proverbs 12:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/19) — The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
- [Proverbs 12:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/22) — Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
- [Proverbs 13:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/5) — A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
- [Proverbs 14:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/5) — A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
- [Proverbs 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/4) — A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
- [Proverbs 17:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/7) — Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
- [Proverbs 19:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/5) — A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
- [Proverbs 19:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/9) — A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
- [Proverbs 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/17) — Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
- [Proverbs 21:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/25/14) — Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
- [Proverbs 25:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/25/18) — A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
- [Proverbs 26:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/28) — A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
- [Proverbs 29:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/12) — If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
- [Proverbs 31:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/30) — Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
- [Isaiah 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/9/15) — The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
- [Isaiah 28:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/28/15) — Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass throug…
- [Isaiah 32:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/7) — The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh r…
- [Isaiah 44:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 57:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/4) — Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a se…
- [Isaiah 59:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/3) — For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
- [Isaiah 59:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/13) — In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from…
- [Jeremiah 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/10) — And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
- [Jeremiah 3:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/23) — Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Isr…
- [Jeremiah 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/2) — And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
- [Jeremiah 5:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 t…
- [Jeremiah 6:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 eve…
- [Jeremiah 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/4) — Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
- [Jeremiah 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/8) — Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
- [Jeremiah 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/8) — How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
- [Jeremiah 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/10) — Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the…
- [Jeremiah 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 e…
- [Jeremiah 9:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/5) — And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themsel…
- [Jeremiah 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/14) — Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no…
- [Jeremiah 13:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/25) — This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
- [Jeremiah 14:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/14) — Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them:…
- [Jeremiah 16:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,…
- [Jeremiah 20:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/20/6) — And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and…
- [Jeremiah 23:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jeremiah 23:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/25) — I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
- [Jeremiah 23:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/26) — How long 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/32) — Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by th…
- [Jeremiah 27:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/27/10) — For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
- [Jeremiah 27:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/27/14) — Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy…
- [Jeremiah 27:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/27/15) — For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and…
- [Jeremiah 27:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/27/16) — Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy un…
- [Jeremiah 28:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/28/15) — Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to t…
- [Jeremiah 29:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/9) — For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.
- [Jeremiah 29:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/21) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto…
- [Jeremiah 29:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/23) — Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my…
- [Jeremiah 29:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/31) — Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied un…
- [Jeremiah 37:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/37/14) — Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to…
- [Jeremiah 40:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/40/16) — But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.
- [Jeremiah 43:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/43/2) — Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely:…
- [Jeremiah 51:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/17) — Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no…
- [Ezekiel 13:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/22) — Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he…
- [Hosea 7:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/7/1) — When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and…
- [Micah 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 pr…
- [Micah 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/6/12) — For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
- [Habakkuk 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Zechariah 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/5/4) — I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth fal…
- [Zechariah 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/8/17) — And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith…
- [Zechariah 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/10/2) — For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went t…
- [Zechariah 13:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/13/3) — And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt n…
- [Malachi 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…