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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 sojourner or hired servant may eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:15 - If the owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 - "You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10 - "An outsider shall not eat of a holy thing. A sojourner of the priest's or a hired servant shall not eat of a holy thing;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - The sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - he shall be with you as a hired servant and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his release shall be according to the number of years; the time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:53

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:53 - As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with harshness over him 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 let him go free from you; for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 - "You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brethren or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1 - "Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 - Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:6 - look away from him, and desist, that he may enjoy, like a hireling, his day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14 - But now the LORD says, "In three years, like the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble."

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:16 - For thus the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 - Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like fatted calves; yea, they have turned and fled together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity 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 draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
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