Schochet said he didn't have the heart to break it to the guy, that the word on his arm actually reads as "matzoh," the Hebrew word for the cracker-like unleavened bread Jews eat during the holiday of Passover.

"Let's just say, there is a white guy in Arkansas walking around with the Hebrew word for 'cracker' on his arm...and he doesn't know it!" Schochet said in the comments on his post.

"When he told me that he thought it meant strength, my mind was spinning," Schochet told BuzzFeed News by phone. "Was there some other definition of matzoh that I didn't know? But I looked it up and there isn't. This poor guy totally got fooled."

Schochet said that his post has been shared over 3,500 times since he first uploaded it on Monday. In the comments several people pointed out that there are websites that recommend Hebrew tattoos, and on one, the word for strength is given as "matzah."

"Maybe some Israeli guy is just having a good time tricking people," he said. "Right under the word matzoh was the word 'chametz' [Hebrew for the leavened bread Jews won't eat on the Passover holiday] and it was defined as power or something, so it made me think some guy was just messing with people."