Lexicon :: Strong's H7916 - śāḵîr

“A temporary resident or hired worker may not eat the Passover.

“If its owner is there with it, the man does not have to make restitution. If it was rented, the loss is covered by[fn] its rental price.

“Do not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages due a hired worker must not remain with you until morning.

“No one outside a priest’s family[fn] is to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired worker is not to eat the holy offering.

“Whatever the land produces during the Sabbath year can be food for you ​— ​for yourself, your male or female slave, and the hired worker or alien who resides with you.

“Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he may work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

“The one who purchased him is to calculate the time from the year he sold himself to him until the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years. It will be set for him like the daily wages of a hired worker.

“He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A resident alien is not to rule over him harshly in your sight.

“Do not regard it as a hardship[fn] when you set him free, because he worked for you six years ​— ​worth twice the wages of a hired worker. Then the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

“Do not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether one of your Israelite brothers or one of the resident aliens in a town[fn] in your land.

Isn’t each person consigned to forced labor on earth?

Are not his days like those of a hired worker?

look away from him and let him rest

so that he can enjoy his day like a hired worker.

And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, in spite of a very large population. And those who are left will be few and weak.”

For the Lord said this to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker counts years, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

Even her mercenaries among her

are like stall-fed calves.

They too will turn back;

together they will flee;

they will not take their stand,

for the day of their calamity is coming on them,

the time of their punishment.

“I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident alien. They do not fear me,” says the LORD of Armies.