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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, (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 45 times in 41 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1 -

After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying,

“Do not fear, Abram,

I am a shield to you;

[fn]Your reward shall be very great.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 -

Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my [fn]relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:18 - And Leah said, “God has given me my [fn]wages because I gave my servant-woman to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:28 - And he continued to say, “Name me your wages, and I will give it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:32 - let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted sheep and every black [fn]one among the lambs and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:33 - “So my righteousness will answer for me later, when you come concerning my [fn]wages. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered stolen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:7 - “Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times; however, God did not allow him to harm me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:8 - “If he spoke thus, ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled; and if he spoke thus, ‘The striped shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore striped.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:41 - “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.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:9 - Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:15 - “But if its owner is with it, he shall not make restitution; if it is hired, it came for its hire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 -

‘You shall not oppress your neighbor nor rob him. The wages of a hired man shall not remain with you overnight until morning.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:31 - ‘And you may eat it anywhere, you and your households, for it is your compensation in return for your service in the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18 -

“It shall not seem hard in your sight when you [fn]let him go to be free from you, for he has given you six years with [fn]double the service of a hired man; so Yahweh your God will bless you in whatever you do.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 -

“You shall not oppress a hired person who is afflicted and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of your sojourners who is in your land within your gates.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:15 - “You shall give him his wages on his day [fn]before the sun goes down, for he is afflicted and sets his soul on it, so that he will not cry against you to Yahweh and it become sin in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:12 - “May Yahweh fully repay your work, and may your wages be full from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to seek refuge.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6 - “So now, command that they cut for me cedars from Lebanon, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:7 - “But you, be strong and do not let your hands fall limp, for there is reward for your work.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 -

“As a slave who pants for the shade,

And as a hired man who eagerly hopes for his wages,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:3 -

Behold, children are [fn]an inheritance of Yahweh,

The fruit of the womb is a reward.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:18 -

The wicked earns deceptive wages,

But he who sows righteousness gets a true reward.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:21 -

[fn]Assuredly, the evil man will not go unpunished,

But the seed of the righteous will escape.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:8 -

A bribe is a [fn]charm in the eyes of its owner;

Wherever he turns, he prospers.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:9 -

Two are better than one because they have good wages for their labor.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:5 - For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:18 - And her gain and her harlot’s wages will be set apart to Yahweh; it will not be treasured up or hoarded, but her gain will become sufficient food and choice attire for those who inhabit the presence of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:10 -

Behold, Lord Yahweh will come with strength,

With His arm ruling for Him.

Behold, His reward is with Him

And His recompense before Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:11 -

Behold, Yahweh has [fn]announced to the end of the earth,

Say to the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes;

Behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:13 -

“Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness

And his [fn]upper rooms without justice,

Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay

And does not give him his wages,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:16 -

Thus says Yahweh,

“Restrain your voice from weeping

And your eyes from tears,

For your work will be rewarded,” declares Yahweh,

“And they will return from the land of the enemy.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:15 - “The sons of Dedan were your traders. Many coastlands were [fn]customers at your hand; ivory tusks and ebony they brought as your payment.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:27 -

“Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise,

Your sailors and your pilots,

Your repairers of seams, your dealers in merchandise,

And all your men of war who are in you,

With all your assembly that is in your midst,

Will fall into the heart of the seas

On the day of your downfall.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:33 -

‘When your wares went out from the seas,

You satisfied a great number of peoples;

With the greatness of your wealth and your merchandise

You enriched the kings of earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:18 - “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his military force [fn]labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his military force had no wages from Tyre for the [fn]labor that he had [fn]labored against it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:19 - Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her [fn]abundance and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his military force.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:11 -

Her heads pronounce judgment for a bribe,

And her priests instruct for a price,

And her prophets divine for money.

Yet they lean on Yahweh saying,

“Is not Yahweh in our midst?

Evil will not come upon us.”

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:6 - “You have sown much, but bring in little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is [fn]not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:10 - ‘For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for animal; and for him who went out or came in there was no [fn]peace because of the adversary, and I set all men one against another.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:12 - And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, [fn]never mind!” So they weighed out thirty [fn]shekels of silver as my wages.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 -

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the [fn]orphan, and those who turn aside the sojourner and do not [fn]fear Me,” says Yahweh of hosts.

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