Brief Hebrew question, again

[swan_tower]

I need a Hebrew word/root for "trick" or "lie."

(Ultimate goal: to end up with some "Zedekiah"-style invented name that tells those in the know that the bearer is actually a liar.)

Comments

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

Sheker is falseness. skr

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Shekeriah, then?

And that's a great icon to pair it with. :-)

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

Haha, it's why I chose it!

And Shakrania is good, Shakhran is a liar. It's a complex verb.

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

Sheker- lie
Ramaut - deception
Tikhmun - trick

[abigail-n.livejournal.com]

Sheker (lie) has already been mentioned, but there's also tachsis or tachbula (trick or scheme), or ta'alul for a more playful connotation. Kazav is a falsehood (sheker ve-kazav is a Hebrew turn of phrase you use when you want to emphatically deny the truth of what someone is saying). A person who is cunning is armumi, which has a slightly more negative connotation than the English word, and a cheat or a swindler is a rama'i.

[cepetit.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

I think it also makes a difference what time period you're talking about, as the evolution of Hebrew from Roman times to now has changed a lot of connotations. For example, one of the reasons that the story of "the good Samaritan" resonated with contemporary listeners/readers is that, among the city Jews of Jerusalem (and environs) during the Roman occupation, "Samaritan" implied "dishonest skinflint"; a more-recent parallel in English would be "welshing on a debt." If you said "Samaritan" in the streets of Tel Aviv today, though, you'd just get puzzled frowns.

Admittedly, that's not "Hebrew vocabulary," but mine is of the look-it-up-in-the-dictionary-and-scholarly-footnotes variety, so I can't give a better, more direct example...