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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 - A foreigner and an hired servant H7916 shall not eat thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:15 - But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired H7916 thing, it came for his hire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 - Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired H7916 shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10 - There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, H7916 shall not eat of the holy thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, H7916 and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - But as an hired servant, H7916 and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant H7916 shall it be with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:53

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:53 - And as a yearly hired servant H7916 shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18 - It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant H7916 to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 - Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant H7916 that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1 - Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? H7916

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 - As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling H7916 looketh for the reward of his work:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:6 - Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, H7916 his day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14 - But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, H7916 and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:16 - For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, H7916 and 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 H7916 are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 - And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling H7916 in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
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