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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so 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 you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:1 - “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:2 - “Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:5 - “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:16 - “Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:41

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:41 - “He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who 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 whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:8 - “So when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, ‘Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:41

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:41 - “For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you belong to Christ, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no means 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 indeed your reward is great in heaven,
For in like manner their fathers did to the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:35 - “But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:7 - “And remain in the same house, eating and drinking such things as they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:36

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:18 - (Now this man purchased a field with the wages of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his entrails gushed out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:4 - Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:8 - Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:14 - If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:17 - For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:18 - What is my reward then? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ[fn] without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 5:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:18 - For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,”[fn] and, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4 - Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:13 - and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:15 - They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Jo 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Jo 1:8 - Look to yourselves, that we[fn] do not lose those things we worked for, but that we[fn] may receive a full reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:11 - Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:18 - The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come,
And the time of the dead, that they should be judged,
And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints,
And those who fear Your name, small and great,
And should destroy those who destroy the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:12 - “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.
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