שָׂכַר
sâkar · H7936 · Hebrew · 21 occurrences
Meanings
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To engage in paid labor, either by employing someone to work for wages or by offering one's own services for compensation
ExamplesHaggai 1:6 “You have sown much, only to harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but there is not enough for anyone to get warm; and the one who earns, earns wages to put into a money bag full of holes.”
Genesis 30:16 When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must have relations with me, for I have indeed hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
Judges 9:4 And they gave him seventy pieces of silver from the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men, and they followed him.
How it’s used In 6 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
19 occurrences in 14 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 4
- Not stated (participle) 4
- Other words · 12 groups that occur once or twice (13) 13
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
16 occurrences in 17 groups
- מֶלֶךְking 4
- אִישׁman, person, each 3
- Other words · 15 groups that occur once or twice (18) 18
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
12 occurrences in 16 groups
- Other words · 16 groups that occur once or twice (18) 18
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׂכַרto hire oneself out 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 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
- μισθόω misthóō · G3409 · to hire
- Greek μισθόω specifically denotes hiring out for wages or (in middle voice) hiring/renting, serving as the direct Septuagint rendering of Hebrew שָׂכַר's core sense of wage-based employment transactions.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Hire002003002014
- The verb for hiring or earning wages, directly shown in Leah's claim to have "hired" Jacob with her son's mandrakes (Genesis 30:16), Abimelech "hir[ing] worthless and reckless men" (Judges 9:4), the Danites who "hired" the young Levite as priest (Judges 18:4), and the once-full who now "hire themselves out for bread" (1 Samuel 2:5); the sampled citation at Deuteronomy 23:5 does not itself show this sense, describing instead the LORD's refusal to heed Balaam.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7936. sakar II. [סָכַר] verb hire ( = שָׂכַר; ס erroneously for שׂ); — only Qal…
II. [סָכַר] verb hire ( = שָׂכַר; ס erroneously for שׂ); — only
Qal Participle plural וְסֹכְרִים Ezr 4:5 and hiring against (על) them agents.
שָׂכַר verb hire (Late Hebrew id.; Sabean תשכר hire oneself out (?), recompense (?) DHMHofmus. 11; Ethiopic hired; Arabic reward, thank, modern Palestinian hired, of land ploughed by hire, BergheimPEQ 1894, 196; Palmyrene שכרא perhaps rewarding Lzb375); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳שׂ Deu 23:5; 2Ki 7:6, suffix שְׂכָרוֺ Neh 6:12; Neh 6:1singular suffix שְׂכַרְתִּיךָ Gen 30:16; Imperfect3masculine singular וַיִּשְׂכֹּר Jdg 9:4 +, etc.; Infinitive absolute שָׂכֹר Gen 30:16; construct לִשְׂכֹּר 1Ch 19:6; Participle active שׂכֵר Pro 26:10 (twice in verse), plural שׂכְרִים2Ch 24:12 (Ezr 4:5 see II. סכר); passive שָׂכוּר Neh 6:13; — hire, retainers Jdg 9:4 (ב pret.), soldiers, etc. 2Sa 10:6 = 1Ch 19:6-7, 2Ki 7:6; 2Ch 25:6 (ב pret.), priest Jdg 18:4, artificers Isa 46:6; 2Ch 24:12, husband's favour שְׂכַרְתִּיךָ שָׂכֹר Gen 30:16 (J; ב pret.); Pro 26:10 (twice in verse) obscure, see De Now Toy; for evil purpose Deu 23:5 = Neh 13:2 (על against), Neh 6:12-13,
Niph`al hire oneself out, Perfect נִשְׂכָּ֑רוּ בַּלֶּחֶם 1Sa 2:5.
Hithpa`el earn wages, Participle הַמְּשְׂתַּכֵּר Hag 1:6 (as substantive), ׳מ Hag 1:6 (as verb, + אֶל location, construction praegn.).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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