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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 be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:46

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:46 - For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:1 - Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

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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, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:5 - And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:16 - Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen of men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:41

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:41 - He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward: and he that receiveth 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 unto 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 - And when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the laborers, and pay them their hire, beginning from the last unto 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, 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 heaven; for in the same manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:35 - But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 10:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:36 - He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:18 - (Now this man obtained a field with the reward of his iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder 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 worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:8 - Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall 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 any man’s work shall abide which he built thereon, 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 of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:18 - What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 5:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:18 - For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4 - Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:13 - suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:15 - forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Jo 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Jo 1:8 - Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:11 - Woe unto them! for they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:18 - And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them 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 is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.
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