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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45 - “A foreign resident or a hired H7916 person H7916 shall not eat of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:15 - “But if its owner is with it, he shall not make restitution; if it is hired H7916, it came for its hire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 -

‘You shall not oppress your neighbor nor rob him. The wages of a hired H7916 man H7916 shall not remain with you overnight until morning.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10 -

‘No [fn]layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a foreign resident with the priest or a hired H7916 man H7916 shall not eat of the holy gift.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - ‘And the sabbath produce of the land shall be for food; for you and your male and female slaves and your hired H7916 man H7916 and your foreign resident, those who sojourn with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - ‘He shall be with you as a hired H7916 man H7916, as if he were a foreign resident; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - ‘He then with his purchaser shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years. It is like the days of a hired H7916 man H7916 that he shall be with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:53 - ‘Like a man H7916 hired H7916 year by year he shall be with him; he shall not have dominion over him with brutality in your sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:18 -

“It shall not seem hard in your sight when you [fn]let him go to be free from you, for he has given you six years with [fn]double the service of a hired H7916 man H7916; so Yahweh your God will bless you in whatever you do.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 -

“You shall not oppress a hired H7916 person H7916 who is afflicted and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of your sojourners who is in your land within your gates.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1 -

[fn]Is not man conscripted to labor on earth,

And are not his days like the days of a hired H7916 man H7916?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 -

“As a slave who pants for the shade,

And as a hired H7916 man H7916 who eagerly hopes for his wages,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:6 -

“Turn Your gaze from him that he may cease from toil,

Until he accepts his day like a hired H7916 man H7916.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14 - But now Yahweh speaks, saying, “Within three years, as [fn]a hired H7916 man H7916 would count them, the glory of Moab will be dishonored along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and not mighty.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:16 -

For thus the Lord said to me, “In a year, as [fn]a hired H7916 man H7916 would count it, all the glory of Kedar will end;

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 -

“Also her mercenaries in her midst

Are like [fn]fattened calves,

For even they have turned back and have fled away together;

They did not stand their ground.

For the day of their disaster has come upon them,

The time of their punishment.

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 -

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely and against those who oppress the wage H7916 earner H7916 in his wages, the widow and the [fn]orphan, and those who turn aside the sojourner and do not [fn]fear Me,” says Yahweh of hosts.

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