Word

מַשְׂכֹּרֶת

maskôreth · H4909 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

hire, wages, fare

A fixed regular payment for work, either with money or in kind; in extension: all that happens in return for one's actions

Examples
Genesis 29:15 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”
Genesis 31:7 “Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times; however, God did not allow him to do me harm.
Genesis 31:41 “For these twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

4 occurrences in 3 groups

יmy 2
ךָyour 1
ךְyour 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

חָלַףto come up 2

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מָהwhat?, why? 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

μισθός misthós · G3408 · pay, wages, reward: Greek μισθός directly translates Hebrew מַשְׂכֹּרֶת across its core semantic range of compensation for labor or service.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Possess002003002019: The word denotes a reward or wages, something earned and thereby possessed.

Word family 7 words

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

שָׂכַר sâkar · H7936 · to hire oneself out, to hire · 21×שָׂכָר sâkâr · H7939 · hire, wages, fare · 28×שָׂכִיר sâkîyr · H7916 · hired, hired laborer · 18×מַשְׂכֹּרֶתmaskôreth · H4909אֶשְׁכָּר ʼeshkâr · H814 · gift, payment · 2×שֶׂכֶר seker · H7938 · wages, to hire oneself out · 2×שְׂכִירָה sᵉkîyrâh · H7917 · hired, hired laborer · 0×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4909. maskoreth [מַשְׂכֹּ֫רֶת] noun feminine wages; — suffix: wages of servant,…

H4909. maskoreth
[מַשְׂכֹּ֫רֶת] noun feminine wages; — suffix: wages of servant, מַשְׂכֻּרְתִּי Gen 31:7, Gen 31:41, תֶּ֑ךָ Gen 29:15; = reward of faithfulness, תֵח- Rth 2:12.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Possess4 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