שָׂקַר
to ogle
‘to ogle’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
Form
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H8265 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Isaiah 1 verse
About this entry
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שקר — transliterated sâqar — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to ogle.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Isaiah (100% of all occurrences). Found nowhere else but Isaiah 3:16. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8265 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Wanton 1×
- American Standard Version: Wanton 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Wanton 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: And 1×, Winking 1×
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American Standard Version Public Domain
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Renders H8265 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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Renders H8265 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Piel) to ogle, be wanton
- ogling (participle)
Word origin
[ שָׂקַר ] vb. Pi. ogle;— Is 3:16
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שָׂקַר
- , v. סָקר II
שָׁקַר
- (b. h.) to be false. Gen. R. s. 85, beg. שָׁקַרְתָּ יהודה thou hast been false, O Judah; Yalk. ib. 144; Yalk. Mal. 589.
- 1. same, same, to lie; to defraud.—מה לי לשַׁקּר what reason should I have for making a false statement?, i.e. a person’s statement is to be credited, when he gains nothing by it, since he might have obtained the same advantage in another way. Kidd. 64ᵇ אמרינן מה לי לשקר וכ׳ we apply the principle that we believe him, because he gains nothing by falsehood: for, why should he have said so? In order to release her from leviratical marriage after his death? If so, he might have said to her: I release thee by a divorce. Ib. מה לי לש׳ כי עדים דמי a person’s statement accepted on the ground that he had no reason for lying, has the same legal value as the statement of witnesses; מה לי לש׳ כי חזקה דמי it has only the same value as a presumption (חֲזָקָה). Keth. 27ᵇ מה לי לש׳ אי בעי וכ׳ we must believe him, for, if he had wanted, he might have said &c. Ib. מה לי לש׳ במקום עדים וכ׳ we do not apply the principle of mah li l’shaḳḳer, when the person’s statement is contradicted by witnesses (by well-known facts); B. Mets. 81ᵇ; a. fr.—Y. Snh. XI, 30ᶜ top (expl. כחש לו, I Kings XIII, 18) שי׳ בו (not ביה) he played him false; Cant. R. to II, 5 שי׳ לו; ib. ומה שי׳ לו שהאכילהו וכ׳ and wherein did he play him false? In that he gave him the bread of deceit to eat (made him the recipient of treacherous hospitality). Num. R. s. 2018; Tanḥ. Balak 12 מְשַׁקֵּר במשקלות, v. מִשְׁקָל; a. fr. e.g. 1 Kings 13:18
- 2. to prove false; to contradict, refute. Macc. 5ᵃ (ref. to Deut. XIX, 18) עד שתְּשַׁקֵּר גופה וכ׳ until thou disprovest the body of the testimony (provest an alibi of the witnesses). e.g. Deuteronomy 19:18
- to be refuted, be proved to be a liar. Y. ib. I, beg. 31ᵃ [read:] עדים שנזדממו וחזרו ונִשְׁתַּקְּרוּ if witnesses against whom an alibi had been proved were also proved to have told a falsehood (as to the fact to which they testified).
שְׁקַר I
- Targ. Mal. II, 10 (ed. Wil. Pa.). Targ. Josh. XXII, 16; 22; 31; a. e.—Yeb. 55ᵇ, v. שַׁקָּרָא.
- same. Targ. O. Gen. XXI, 23 (Y. Pe.). Targ. Ps. XLIV, 18; a. fr.—Gitt. 57ᵃ שַׁקּוּרֵי מְשַׁקְּרִיתוּ you tell a falsehood. Taan. 9ᵇ כי היכי דמְשַׁקְּרֵי … משקרי וכ׳ as the Babylonians are deceivers, so their rains are, v. מִטְרָא. R. Hash. 22ᵇ לא משקרי וכ׳, v. גְּלֵי; a. fr.
שַׁקָּר
- (preced.) liar.—Pl. שַׁקָּרִים, שַׁקָּרִין. Sot. 42ᵃ; Yalk. Hos. 524, v. שַׁקְרָן.
שֶׁקֶר
- preced.) lie, falsehood, vanity. Y. Snh. XI, 30ᶜ top מי שהאכיל … לחם ש׳ he that offered to his friend bread of falsehood (treacherous hospitality, v. שָׁקַר), opp. לחם אמת true hospitality. Shebu. 21ᵃ שבועת ש׳ נשבע להחליף a false oath is, if one swears to what is the opposite of true (that something happened which has not happened &c.), (modified) נשבע ומחליף he swears (vows that he will or will not do a certain thing), and does the opposite. Macc. 3ᵃ עדות ש׳ העדתי I have given false testimony. Lev. R. s. 6 המשביע … לש׳ וכ׳ he who lets his neighbor swear in vain (when he knows that he has no claim), shall finally leave his house empty-handed; R. A. says על ש׳ וכ׳ if he lets him swear to what he knows to be a lie; R. J. says, even if he lets him swear to a truth. Sabb. 104ᵃ, v. קְרֵב; a. v. fr.—Y. Macc. I, beg. 31ᵃ עדים שנזדממו … ש׳ ש׳ when witnesses have been convicted of an alibi, R. J. says, we draw an analogy between sheḳer (Ex. XX, 16) and sheḳer (Deut. XIX, 18), i.e. they must suffer corporal punishment in addition to pecuniary penalty.—Pl. שְׁקָרִים. Gen. R. s. 8 אל יברא שכולו ש׳ let man not be created, for he will be full of falsehoods; a. e. e.g. Exodus 20:16
שְׁקַר
- Targ. I Sam. XII, 3 ממון דש׳ (h. text כפר). Ib. XV, 29. Targ. O. Ex. XX, 7 (h. text שוא). Targ. ib. 13; a. fr.—Sabb. 104ᵃ (v. קְרֵב) ש׳ שכיח וכ׳ lie is frequent, truth rare. Ib. קושטא קאי ש׳ וכ׳ truth stands firm, falsehood does not. B. Bath. 82ᵃ, a. fr. מחזי כש׳ it looks like a lie. Lev. R. s. 26; Midr. Sam. ch. XXIV; Yalk. ib. 139 עלמא דש׳, v. עַלְמָא. Ib. מלין דש׳ words of falsehood; Lev. R. l. c. מלין שַׁקָּרִין. Succ. 46ᵇ לא … דאתי לאגמוריה ש׳ one should not say to a child, I shall give thee something, and not give it, because he may teach him falsehood; a. fr.—Pl. שִׁקְרִין, שִׁי׳. Targ. Ps. CI, 7. Targ. Jer. XXIII, 32; a. e.—[Y. Snh. VI, 23ᵇ bot., v. next w.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
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