To deal
שָׁקַרStrong’s H8266shaqar (sha-qar)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaqar is the Hebrew word usually translated “deal falsely” and “we had dealt falsely”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.”
Meaning
- To do or deal falsely, be false, trick, cheat(Piel) to deal falsely · (Qal) to deal falsely
How it's translated
- you will deal falsely 2
- he will deal falsely 1
- we had dealt falsely 1
- i will deal falsely 1
- they will deal falsely 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Genesis 1
- Leviticus 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 19:11Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
- 1 Samuel 15:29And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
- Psalms 44:17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
- Psalms 89:33Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
- Isaiah 63:8For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁקַר shaqar · to deal
1) to do or deal falsely, be false, trick, cheat 1a) (Piel) to deal falsely 1b) (Qal) to deal falsely
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “deal” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEAL, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive dealt, pronoun delt.
- To divide; to part; to separate; hence, to divide in portions; to distribute; often followed by out.“Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry?” Isaiah 58:7
- To scatter; to throw about; as, to deal out feathered deaths.
- To throw out in succession; to give one after another; as, to deal out blows.
- To distribute the cards of a pack to the players.
All definitions and other forms of “deal”
DEAL, verb intransitive
- To traffick; to trade; to negotiate.
- To act between man and man; to intervene; to transact or negotiate between men.
- To behave well or ill; to act; to conduct one's self in relation to others.
- To distribute cards.
- To trade in; as, to deal in silks, or in cutlery.“Now we will deal worse with thee” Genesis 19:9“Return-and I will deal well with thee” Genesis 32:9
- To contend with; to treat with, by way of opposition, check or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.
- To treat with by way of discipline, in ecclesiastical affairs; to admonish.
- Literally, a division; a part or portion; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree or extent; as a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold; a deal of space.
- The division or distribution of cards; the art or practice of dealing cards.
- The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; a sense much more used in England than in the U.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.