Hired worker
μίσθιοςStrong’s G3407misthios
Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament
In short
Misthios is the Greek word usually translated “hired servants” and “servants”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.
“And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!”
Meaning
Usually translated “hired servants” and “servants”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- hired servants 1
- servants 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 2
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Greek dictionary
μίσθιος misthios · hired worker
μίσθιος, -α, -ον (also -ος, -ον), [in LXX: Lev.19:13 A Lev.25:50, Job.7:1 (שָׂכִיר), Tob.5:11, Sir.7:10 31:22 37:11 * ;] hired; as subst., ὁ μ., a hired servant: Luk.15:17, 19 15:21 (Anth., Plut.).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “servant” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SERV'ANT, verb transitive
To subject. [Not in use.]
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 Greek, not from any one translation.