Limitless Word
שֶׁקֶרsheqer/sheh'-ker/
HebrewH8267111 occurrences (KJV)

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

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

Where it appears(showing the first 107 of 111)

  • Exod 5:9Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
  • Exod 20:16“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
  • Exod 23:7“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
  • Lev 6:3or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of these things that a man does, sinning therein;
  • Lev 6:5or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.
  • Lev 19:12“‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
  • Deut 19:18and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;
  • 1 Sam 25:21Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.
  • 2 Sam 18:13Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”
  • 1 Kgs 22:22Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’
  • 1 Kgs 22:23Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”
  • 2 Kgs 9:12They said, “That is a lie. Tell us now.” He said, “He said to me, ‘Yahweh says, I have anointed you king over Israel.’”
  • 2 Chr 18:21“He said, ‘I will go, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ “He said, ‘You will entice him, and will prevail also. Go and do so.’
  • 2 Chr 18:22“Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”
  • Job 13:4But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
  • Job 36:4For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
  • Ps 7:14Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.
  • Ps 27:12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
  • Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
  • Ps 33:17A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power.
  • Ps 35:19Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
  • Ps 38:19But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
  • Ps 52:3You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
  • Ps 63:11But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.
  • Ps 69:4Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.
  • Ps 101:7He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
  • Ps 109:2for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
  • Ps 119:29Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
  • Ps 119:69The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
  • Ps 119:78Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
  • Ps 119:86All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
  • Ps 119:104Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN
  • Ps 119:118You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.
  • Ps 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
  • Ps 119:163I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
  • Ps 120:2Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
  • Ps 144:8whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
  • Ps 144:11Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
  • Prov 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
  • Prov 6:19a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
  • Prov 10:18He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
  • Prov 11:18Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
  • Prov 12:17He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.
  • Prov 12:19Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.
  • Prov 12:22Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
  • Prov 14:5A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.
  • Prov 17:4An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
  • Prov 17:7Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
  • Prov 19:5A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.
  • Prov 19:9A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
  • Prov 20:17Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
  • Prov 21:6Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
  • Prov 25:14As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
  • Prov 25:18A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
  • Prov 26:28A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
  • Prov 31:30Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
  • Isa 9:15The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
  • Isa 28:15“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
  • Isa 32:7The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
  • Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
  • Isa 57:4Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience, and offspring of falsehood,
  • Isa 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
  • Isa 59:13transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
  • Jer 3:10Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.
  • Jer 3:23Truly in vain is help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.
  • Jer 5:2Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ surely they swear falsely.”
  • Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
  • Jer 6:13“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
  • Jer 7:4Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
  • Jer 7:8Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.
  • Jer 7:9Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
  • Jer 8:8“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
  • Jer 8:10Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
  • Jer 9:3“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
  • Jer 9:5Everyone will deceive their neighbors, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.
  • Jer 10:14Every man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
  • Jer 13:25This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh; “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”
  • Jer 14:14Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them, neither have I commanded them, neither did I speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
  • Jer 16:19Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.
  • Jer 20:6You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.’”
  • Jer 23:14In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”
  • Jer 23:25“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
  • Jer 23:26How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
  • Jer 23:32Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them, nor command them; neither do they profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.
  • Jer 27:10for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.
  • Jer 27:14Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you.
  • Jer 27:15For I have not sent them,” says Yahweh, “but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.”
  • Jer 27:16Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Yahweh says, “Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of Yahweh’s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you.
  • Jer 28:15Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen, Hananiah! Yahweh has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie.
  • Jer 29:9For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them,” says Yahweh.
  • Jer 29:21Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: “Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes.
  • Jer 29:23because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.
  • Jer 29:31“Send to all them of the captivity, saying, ‘Yahweh says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie;”
  • Jer 37:14Then Jeremiah said, “That is false! I am not falling away to the Chaldeans.” But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah siezed Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
  • Jer 40:16But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael.”
  • Jer 43:2then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’
  • Jer 51:17“Every man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
  • Ezek 13:22Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.
  • Hos 7:1When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
  • Mic 2:11If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink”; he would be the prophet of this people.
  • Mic 6:12Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
  • Hab 2:18“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
  • Zech 5:4I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”
  • Zech 8:17and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.
  • Zech 10:2For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
  • Zech 13:3It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.
  • Mal 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.