שָׂכִיר
sâkîyr · H7916 · Hebrew · 18 occurrences
Meanings
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hired
State in which animals or objects have been made available to be of service or use to others for a limited amount of time and in return for payment
ExamplesExodus 22:15 “If its owner is with it, the borrower shall not be compelled to make restitution. If it is hired, it came by its hire.
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hired laborer
A person who has made himself available to be of service to others for a limited amount of time and in return for payment; who is usually paid daily, and his fragile rights are protected by the law; often used in metaphors expressing short and limited periods of time
ExamplesExodus 12:45 “A stranger or a hired worker shall not eat it.
Leviticus 19:13 ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired worker are not to remain with you all night until morning.
Leviticus 22:10 ‘No layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a foreign resident with the priest or a hired worker shall not eat the holy gift.
How it’s used In 8 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
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- שָׁנֶהyear 1
- ךָyour 1
- הּher 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֶבְיוֹןpoor 1
- עָנִיpoor, afflicted 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 2
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָשַׁקto practice extortion 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵגֶלmale calf 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- כlike/as 6
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
8 occurrences in 5 groups
- יוֹםday, time 2
- שָׂכָרhire 2
- שָׁנֶהyear 2
- פְּעֻלָּהwages, recompense, deed 1
- תַּעַרsheath, razor 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
- μισθωτός misthōtós · G3411 · hired worker, hired person
- Greek μισθωτός denotes one who works for wages, corresponding directly to Hebrew שָׂכִיר as the standard translation equivalent for 'hired worker' or 'hireling' across the LXX corpus.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Hire002003002014
- The noun for a hired worker, used of the hired worker excluded from eating the Passover with a household member (Exodus 12:45), the wages of a hired worker that must not remain overnight (Leviticus 19:13), and the hired worker excluded from eating the holy gift (Leviticus 22:10) or included in the Sabbath produce (Leviticus 25:6).
- People001001003
- The hired worker as a distinct class of person within the household and community, listed alongside the stranger, foreign resident, and slaves throughout these same regulations (Exodus 12:45, Leviticus 25:6); the sampled citation at Exodus 22:14 does not itself show the word clearly, likely reflecting a one-verse offset from the actual "hired" occurrence at Exodus 22:15 in English numbering.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7916. sakir שָׂכִיר adjective hired; — absolute ׳שׂ Exodus 14:45 +, feminine שְׂכִירָה…
שָׂכִיר adjective hired; — absolute ׳שׂ Exodus 14:45 +, feminine שְׂכִירָה Isa 7:20; construct שְׂכֹיר Lev 25:53; suffix שְׂכִירְךָ Lev 25:6; plural suffix שְׂכִרֶיהָ Jer 46:21; —
1 hired, of beast Exo 22:14 (E), razor Isa 7:20 (figurative).
2 usually as substantive hireling, hired labourer Deu 15:18; Deu 24:14; Lev 19:13; Lev 22:10; Lev 25:6, Lev 25:40, Lev 25:53 (all H), Exo 12:45; Lev 25:50 (both P), Mal 3:5; Job 7:1-2, Job 14:6; שׂ ׳כִּשְׁנֵי Isa 16:14 years like a hireling's years (reckoned strictly), so Isa 21:16; mercenaries Jer 46:21.
יִשָּׂשׂכָר see above
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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