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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.
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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 - A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:15 - If the owner of it is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 - "'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor 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 - "'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the Kohanim, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - The Shabbat of the land shall be for food for you; for you, and for your servant and for your maid, and for your hired servant and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - As a hired servant, and as a foreigner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you to the year of 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 that he sold himself to him to the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.

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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 rigor 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 to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and 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 be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1 - "Isn't a man forced to labor on eretz? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 - As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, As 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, that he may rest, Until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14 - But now the LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Mo'av shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no account.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:16 - For thus has the Lord said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 - Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 - I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says the LORD of Hosts.
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