Wages
שָׂכָרStrong’s H7939sakhar (sa-khar)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sakhar is the Hebrew word usually translated “wage your”, “wage my” and “reward”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.”
Meaning
- Hire, wageswages · reward, pay · fare, fee, passage-money
How it's translated
- wage your 4
- wage my 4
- a reward 4
- wage 2
- hire of 2
- and wage of 2
- reward his 2
- reward your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 6
- Exodus 2
- Deuteronomy 2
- Ecclesiastes 2
- Isaiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 11:12In contextAnd I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
- Genesis 15:1After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
- Genesis 30:18And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
- Genesis 30:28And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
- Genesis 30:32I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
- Genesis 30:33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂכָר sakhar · wages
1) hire, wages 1a) wages 1b) reward, pay 1c) fare, fee, passage-money
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.