To hire
סָכַרStrong’s H7936sakhar (sa-khar)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sakhar is the Hebrew word usually translated “hired”, “hires” and “certainly”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.”
Meaning
- To hire(Qal) to hire
How it's translated
- and he hired 2
- and they hired 2
- and hires 2
- certainly 1
- i have hired you 1
- he hired 1
- and he has hired me 1
- they hire themselves out 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 3
- Judges 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 23:4Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
- Judges 9:4And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
- Judges 18:4And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
- 1 Samuel 2:5They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
- 2 Samuel 10:6And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
- 2 Kings 7:6For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Hebrew dictionary
סָכַר sakhar · to hire
1) to hire 1a) (Qal) to hire
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hire” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HIRE, verb transitive
- To procure from another person and for temporary use, at a certain price, or for a stipulated or reasonable equivalent; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire a horse for a day; to hire money at legal interest.
- To engage in service for a stipulated reward; to contract with for a compensation; as, to hire a servant for a year; to hire laborers by the day or month.
- To bribe; to engage in immoral or illegal service for a reward.“They have hired out themselves for bread” 1 Samuel 2:5
All definitions and other forms of “hire”
HIRE, noun
- The price, reward or compensation paid or contracted to be given for the temporary use of any thing.
- Wages; the reward or recompense paid for personal service.
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.