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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 sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:15 - “If its owner was with it, he shall not make it good; if it was hired, it came for its hire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 - ‘You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not remain with you all night until morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10 - ‘No outsider shall eat the holy offering; one who dwells with the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat the holy thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - ‘And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - ‘As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - ‘Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be according to the time of a hired servant for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:53

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:53 - ‘He shall be with him as a yearly hired servant, and 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 send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant in serving you six years. Then 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 one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1 - “Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth?
Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 - Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade,
And like a hired man who eagerly 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,
Till like a hired man he finishes 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 hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:16 - For thus the LORD has said to me: “Within a year, according to the year of a hired man, all the glory of Kedar will fail;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 - Also her mercenaries are in her midst like fat bulls,
For they also are turned back,
They have fled away together.
They did not stand,
For the day of their calamity had come upon them,
The time of their punishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 - And I will come near you for judgment;
I will be a swift witness
Against sorcerers,
Against adulterers,
Against perjurers,
Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien—
Because they do not fear Me,”
Says the LORD of hosts.
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