Hired
שָׂכִירStrong’s H7916sakhir (sa-khir)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sakhir is the Hebrew word usually translated “hired laborer”, “like a hired laborer” and “hired”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.”
Meaning
- Hiredhired (of animal) · hireling, hired labourer (subst)
How it's translated
- a hired laborer 8
- and a hired laborer 2
- like a hired laborer 2
- hired 1
- and to hired laborer your 1
- like a hired laborer of 1
- and like a hired laborer 1
- hired soldiers its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 6
- Job 3
- Exodus 2
- Deuteronomy 2
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 22:15But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
- Leviticus 19:13Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
- Leviticus 22:10There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
- Leviticus 25:6And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
- Leviticus 25:40But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
- Leviticus 25:50And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂכִיר sakhir · hired
1) hired 1a) hired (of animal) 1b) hireling, hired labourer (subst) 1b1) mercenary
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hired” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HI'RED, participle passive
Procured or taken for use, at a stipulated or reasonable price; as a hired farm.
- Employed in service for a compensation; as a hired man; a hired servant.
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.