שֶׂכֶר
seker · H7938 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
-
wages
A fixed regular payment for work, either with money or in kind; by extension: all that happens in return for one's actions
ExamplesProverbs 11:18 A wicked person earns deceptive wages, But one who sows righteousness gets a true reward.
-
to hire oneself out
Literally: to do wages; hence: action by which humans make their services available to other humans for a limited amount of time and in return for payment
ExamplesIsaiah 19:10 And the pillars of Egypt will be crushed; All the hired laborers will be grieved in soul.
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶמֶתtruth, faithfulness 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 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.
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.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Possess002003002019
- The noun for a reward received, directly shown in the contrast between deceptive wages and "a true reward" for the righteous (Proverbs 11:18).
- Hire002003002014
- The same noun used of hired labor, directly shown in "all the hired laborers" of Egypt who "will be grieved in soul" at its downfall (Isaiah 19:10).
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7938. seker שֶׂ֫כֶר noun [masculine] hire, wages; — absolute שׂ ׳עשֵֹׁי Isa 19:10 (=…
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
New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.