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Lexicon :: Strong's G3408 - misthos

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μισθός
Transliteration
misthos (Key)
Pronunciation
mis-thos'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:695,599

Strong’s Definitions

μισθός misthós, mis-thos'; apparently a primary word; pay for service (literally or figuratively), good or bad:—hire, reward, wages.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x

The KJV translates Strong's G3408 in the following manner: reward (24x), hire (3x), wages (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x
The KJV translates Strong's G3408 in the following manner: reward (24x), hire (3x), wages (2x).

  1. dues paid for work

    1. wages, hire

  2. reward: used of the fruit naturally resulting from toils and endeavours

    1. in both senses, rewards and punishments

    2. of the rewards which God bestows, or will bestow, upon good deeds and endeavours

    3. of punishments

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μισθός misthós, mis-thos'; apparently a primary word; pay for service (literally or figuratively), good or bad:—hire, reward, wages.
STRONGS G3408:
μισθός, μισθοῦ, ὁ (from Homer down), the Sept. for שָׂכָר, also for מַשְׂכֹּרֶת, etc.;
1. dues paid for work; wages, hire: Romans 4:4 (κατά ὀφείλημα); in a prov., Luke 10:7 and 1 Timothy 5:18; Matthew 20:8; James 5:4; Jude 1:11 (on which see ἐκχέω, at the end); μισθός ἀδικίας, wages obtained by iniquity, Acts 1:18; 2 Peter 2:15 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 1 a.).
2. reward: used — of the fruit naturally resulting from toils and endeavors, John 4:36; 1 Corinthians 9:18; — of divine recompense:
a. in both senses, rewards and punishments: Revelation 22:12.
b. of the rewards which God bestows, or will bestow, upon good deeds and endeavors (on the correct theory about which cf. Weiss, Die Lehre Christi vom Lohn, in the Deutsche Zeitschr. für christl. Wissenschaft, 1853, p. 319ff; Mehlhorn, d. Lohnbegr. Jesu, in the Jahrbb. f. protest. Theol., 1876, p. 721ff; (cf. Beyer in Herzog xx, pp. 4-14)): Matthew 5:12; Matthew 6:2, 5, 16; Matthew 10:41; Mark 9:41; Luke 6:23, 35; 1 Corinthians 3:8, 14; 2 John 1:8; Revelation 11:18; ἔχειν μισθόν, to have a reward, is used of those for whom a reward is reserved by God, whom a divine reward awaits, Matthew 5:46; 1 Corinthians 9:17; with παρά τῷ πατρί ὑμῶν τῷ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς added, Matthew 6:1.
c. of punishments: μισθός ἀδικίας, 2 Peter 2:13; τῆς δυσσεβείας, 2 Macc. 8:33.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
5:12; 5:46; 6:1; 6:2; 6:5; 6:16; 10:41; 20:8
Mark
9:41
Luke
6:23; 6:35; 10:7
John
4:36
Acts
1:18
Romans
4:4
1 Corinthians
3:8; 3:14; 9:17; 9:18
1 Timothy
5:18
James
5:4
2 Peter
2:13; 2:15
2 John
1:8
Jude
1:11
Revelation
11:18; 22:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3408 matches the Greek μισθός (misthos),
which occurs 29 times in 28 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:12 - Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for thus have they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:46

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:46 - For if ye should love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not also the tax-gatherers the same?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:1 - Take heed not to do your alms before men to be seen of them, otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:2 - When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:5 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets so that they should appear to men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:16 - And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, downcast in countenance; for they disfigure their faces, so that they may appear fasting to men: verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:41

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:41 - He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:42

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:42 - And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:8 - But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen and pay them their wages, beginning from the last even to the first.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:41

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:41 - For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye are Christ's, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:23 - rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in the heaven, for after this manner did their fathers act toward the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:35 - But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for *he* is good to the unthankful and wicked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:7 - And in the same house abide, eating and drinking such things as they have; for the workman is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:36 - He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto life eternal, that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:18 - (This man then indeed got a field with the reward of iniquity, and, having fallen down headlong, burst in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:4 - Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:8 - But the planter and the waterer are one; but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:14 - If the work of any one which he has built upon the foundation shall abide, he shall receive a reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:17 - For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:18 - What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless to others, so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in announcing the glad tidings.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 5:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:18 - for the scripture says, Thou shalt not muzzle an ox that treadeth out corn, and, The workman is worthy of his hire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4 - Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:13 - receiving the reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:15 - having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Jo 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Jo 1:8 - See to yourselves, that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive full wages.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:11 - Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:18 - And the nations have been full of wrath, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the recompense to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to those who fear thy name, small and great; and to destroy those that destroy the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:12 - Behold, I come quickly, and my reward with me, to render to every one as his work shall be.
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