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Lexicon :: Strong's H7916 - śāḵîr

Aa
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 BoxExo 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45 - A man from a strange country living among you, and a servant working for payment, may not take part in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:15 - If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 - Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10 - No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:53

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:53 - And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18 - Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 - Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1 - Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 - As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:6 - Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14 - But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:16 - For so has the Lord said to me, In a year, by the years of a servant working for payment, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 - And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 - And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
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