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Lexicon :: Strong's G3408 - misthos

Aa
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.
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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 BoxMat 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:12 - Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:46

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:46 - For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:1 - Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:2 - When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the Synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:5 - And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:16 - And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:41

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:41 - He who gives honour to a prophet, in the name of a prophet, will be given a prophet's reward; and he who gives honour to an upright man, in the name of an upright man, will be given an upright man's reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:42

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:42 - And whoever gives to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he will not go without his reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:8 - And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:41

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:41 - Whoever gives you a cup of water, because you are Christ's, truly I say to you, he will in no way be without his reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:23 - Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:35 - But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:7 - And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:36 - He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:18 - (Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:4 - Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:8 - Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:14 - If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:17 - But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:18 - What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:18 - For the Writings say, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. And, The worker has a right to his reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4 - See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:13 - For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:15 - Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Jo 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Jo 1:8 - Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:11 - A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:18 - And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:12 - See, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to every man the outcome of his works.
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