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Lexicon :: Strong's H7916 - śāḵîr

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שָׂכִיר
Transliteration
śāḵîr
Pronunciation
saw-keer'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2264.1c

Strong’s Definitions

שָׂכִיר sâkîyr, saw-keer'; from H7936; a man at wages by the day or year:—hired (man, servant), hireling.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H7916 in the following manner: hired servant (8x), hireling (6x), hired (2x), hired man (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H7916 in the following manner: hired servant (8x), hireling (6x), hired (2x), hired man (1x).

  1. hired

    1. hired (of animal)

    2. hireling, hired labourer (subst)

      1. mercenary

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׂכִיר sâkîyr, saw-keer'; from H7936; a man at wages by the day or year:—hired (man, servant), hireling.
STRONGS H7916: Abbreviations
† שָׂכִיר adjective hired; — absolute שׂ׳ Exodus 14:45 [Exodus 12:45] +, feminine שְׂכִירָה [H7917 Isaiah 7:20]; construct שְׂכֹיר Leviticus 25:53; suffix שְׂכִירְךָ Leviticus 25:6; plural suffix שְׂכִרֶיהָ Jeremiah 46:21; —
1. hired, of beast Exodus 22:14 [Exodus 22:15] (E), razor [H7917 Isaiah 7:20] (figurative)..
2. usually as substantive hireling, hired labourer H7916Deuteronomy 15:18; Deuteronomy 24:14; Leviticus 19:13; Leviticus 22:10; Leviticus 25:6, Leviticus 25:40, Leviticus 25:53 (all H), Exodus 12:45; Leviticus 25:50 (both P), Malachi 3:5; Job 7:1, Job 7:2; Job 14:6; כִּשְׁנֵי שׂ׳ Isaiah 16:14 years like a hireling's years (reckoned strictly), so Isaiah 21:16; mercenaries Jeremiah 46:21.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

12:45; 12:45; 22:15

Leviticus

19:13; 22:10; 25:6; 25:6; 25:40; 25:50; 25:53; 25:53

Deuteronomy

15:18; 24:14

Job

7:1; 7:2; 14:6

Isaiah

16:14; 21:16

Jeremiah

46:21; 46:21

Malachi

3:5

H7916

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7916 matches the Hebrew שָׂכִיר (śāḵîr),
which occurs 17 times in 17 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45 - “No stranger (temporary resident, foreigner) or hired servant shall eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:15 - “But if the owner is with it [when the damage is done], the borrower shall not make restitution. If it was hired, the damage is included in [the price of] its fee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 -

‘You shall not oppress or exploit your neighbor, nor rob him. You shall not withhold the wages of a hired man overnight until morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10 -

‘No layman [that is, someone outside of Aaron’s family] is to eat the holy gift [which has been offered to God]; a foreigner residing with the priest or a hired man shall not eat the holy thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - ‘And all of you shall have for food whatever the [untilled] land produces during its Sabbath year; yourself, and your male and female slaves, your hired servant, and the foreigners who reside among you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - but he is to be with you as a hired man, as if he were a temporary resident; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - ‘Then he [or his redeemer] shall calculate with his purchaser from the year when he sold himself to the purchaser to the Year of Jubilee, and the [original] price of his sale shall be adjusted according to the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be considered as that of a hired man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:53

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:53 - ‘Like a man hired year by year he shall deal with him; he shall not rule over him with harshness in your sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18 -

“It shall not seem hard to you when you set him free, for he has served you six years with double the service of a hired man; so the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 -

“You shall not take advantage of a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether [he is] one of your countrymen or one of the strangers (resident aliens, foreigners) who is in your land inside your cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1 -

“Is not man forced to labor on earth?

And are not his days like the days of a hired man?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 -

“As a slave earnestly longs for the shade,

And as a hired man eagerly awaits his wages,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:6 -

“[O God] turn your gaze from him so that he may rest,

Until he fulfills his day [on earth] like a hired man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14 - But now the LORD speaks, saying, “Within [fn]three years, as the years of a hired man [who will not serve longer than the agreed time], the glory of Moab will be degraded along with all [fn]the great population, and the remnant [that survives] will be very small and of no account.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:16 -

For the Lord has said this to me, “Within a year, according to the years of a hired man [who will work no longer than was agreed], all the splendor of [the tribe of] Kedar will end;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 -

“Also her mercenaries in her army

Are like fattened calves,

For they too have turned back and have fled together;

They did not stand [their ground],

Because the day of their disaster has come upon them,

The time of their punishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 -

“Then I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and against those who turn away the alien [from his right], and those who do not fear Me [with awe-filled reverence],” says the LORD of hosts.

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