Wages
אֶתְנָהStrong’s H0866etnah (et-nah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Etnah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wage”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.”
Meaning
- Hire, price (of a harlot)
- (TWOT) reward
How it's translated
- wage 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Hosea 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אֶתְנָה etnah · wages
1) hire, price (of a harlot) 2) (TWOT) reward
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wages” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WAGES, noun
plural in termination, but singular in signification.
- Hire; reward; that which is paid or stipulated for services; but chiefly for services by manual labor, or for military and naval services.“Tell me, what shall thy wages be?” Genesis 29:15“Be content with your wages” Luke 3:14
- Reward; fruit; recompense; that which is given or received in return.“The wages of sin is death” Romans 6:23
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.