Wage
מַשְׂכֹּ֫רֶתStrong’s H4909maskoret (mas-ko-ret)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maskoret is the Hebrew word usually translated “wage your” and “wage my”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?”
Meaning
- Wages
How it's translated
- wage your 2
- wage my 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Ruth 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
- Genesis 31:41Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
- Ruth 2:12The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Hebrew dictionary
מַשְׂכֹּ֫רֶת maskoret · wage
wages
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wage” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WAGE, verb transitive
- To lay; to bet; to throw down as a pledge; to stake; to put at hazard on the event of a contest.
- To venture; to hazard.
- To make; to begin; to carry on; that is, to go forward or advance to attack, as in invasion or aggression; used in the phrase, to wage war. he waged war with all his enemies.
- To set to hire.
All definitions
- To take to hire; to hire for pay; to employ for wages; as eaged soldiers.
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.