Jastrow: שֶׁקֶר

שֶׁקֶר m. (b. h.; 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.