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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 MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:12 - “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward G3408 in heaven is great; for in the same way 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 G3408 do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:1 -

“Beware of doing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward G3408 with your Father who is in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:2 -

“Therefore, when you [fn]give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be glorified by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward G3408 in full.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:5 -

“And when you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners [fn]so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward G3408 in full.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:16 -

“Now whenever you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they [fn]neglect their appearance so that they will be noticed by men when they are fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward G3408 in full.

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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 G3408; and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward G3408.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:42

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:42 - “And whoever in the name of a disciple gives to one of these [fn]little ones even a cup of cold water to drink, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward G3408.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:8 -

“Now when evening came, the [fn]owner of the vineyard *said to his [fn]foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages G3408, beginning with the last group to the first.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:41 - “For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name because you are of Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward G3408.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:23 -

“Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward G3408 is great in heaven. For their fathers were doing the same things to the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:35 - “But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, [fn]expecting nothing in return; and your reward G3408 will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to the ungrateful and evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:7 - “Stay in [fn]that house, eating and drinking [fn]what they give you; for the laborer is worthy of his wages G3408. Do not keep moving from house to house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:36 - “Even now he who reaps is receiving wages G3408 and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that 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 acquired a field with the price G3408 of his unrighteousness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:4 - Now to the one who works, his wage G3408 is not counted according to grace, but according to what is due.

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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, but each will receive his own [fn]reward G3408 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 which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward G3408.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:17 - For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward G3408; but if against my will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:18 - What then is my reward G3408? That, when I proclaim the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of 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 THE OX WHILE IT IS THRESHING,” and “THE LABORER IS WORTHY OF HIS WAGES G3408.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4 - Behold, the pay G3408 of the laborers who mowed your fields—that which has been withheld by you—cries out against you; and the outcries of those who did the harvesting have reached the ears of the [fn]Lord of [fn]Sabaoth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:13 - suffering unrighteousness as the wages G3408 of their unrighteousness, considering it a pleasure to revel in the daytime—they are stains and blemishes, reveling in their [fn]deceptions, as they feast with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:15 - Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages G3408 of unrighteousness,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Jo 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Jo 1:8 - See to yourselves, that you do not lose what we accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward G3408.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:11 - Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay G3408 they have poured themselves into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:18 - “And the nations were enraged, and Your rage came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and to give reward G3408 to Your slaves—the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great—and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

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“Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward G3408 is with Me, to render to every man [fn]according to his work.

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