Word

μισθόω

misthóō · G3409 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

to hire

To arrange for services by an offer to pay compensation or salary

Examples
Matthew 20:1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Matthew 20:7 “They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

οὐδείςno one 1
Not stated (infinitive) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐγώI, we 1
ἐργάτηςworker 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

εἰςto+ ἀμπελώνvineyard 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

שָׂכַר sâkar · H7936 · to hire oneself out, to hire: שָׂכַר (sâkar, H7936) is the Hebrew verb for hiring or earning wages, directly equivalent to μισθόω (misthóō, G3409) which denotes the same transactional relationship of employment for compensation; both terms share the core semantic domain of wage-based hiring/employment relationships.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To hire57.172: This sense denotes engaging someone for paid work. Matthew 20:1 describes a landowner “who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.”

Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

μισθός misthós · G3408 · pay, wages, reward · 29×μισθαποδοσία misthapodosía · G3405 · reward, recompense, penalty · 3×μισθωτός misthōtós · G3411 · hired worker, hired person · 3×ἀντιμισθία antimisthía · G489 · recompense, exchange · 2×μίσθιος místhios · G3407 · hired worker, hired person · 2×μισθόωmisthóō · G3409μισθαποδότης misthapodótēs · G3406 · rewarder, recompenser · 1×μίσθωμα místhōma · G3410 · hired, rented · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : (μισθός); 1 aorist middle ἐμισθωσάμην; to let out for hire; to hire (cf. Winer's…

: (μισθός); 1 aorist middle ἐμισθωσάμην; to let out for hire; to hire (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 38, 3): τινα, Mt 20:1, Mt 20:7. (Herodotus, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others; the Sept. for שָׂכַר, Deut 23:4; 2 Chr 24:12.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Hire, Rent Out2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0