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Strong's #7916 - שָׂכִיר
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- hired
- hired (of animal)
- hireling, hired labourer (subst)
- mercenary
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2479) rkx (סכר SKR) AC: Hire CO: Wage AB: ?: A payment of wages or reward for services. [from: kx- as a covering for services] (eng: succor, secure)
V) rkx (סכר SKR) - Hire: [df: rkV] KJV (21): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hitpael) hire, reward, wage - Strongs: H7936 (סָכַר)
Nm ) rkx (סכר SKR) - Wage: The reward or price paid for ones labor. [df: rkV] KJV (30): hire, reward, wage, price, fare, worth, sluice - Strongs: H7938 (שֶׂכֶר), H7939 (שָׂכָר)
bm ) rikx (סכיר SKYR) - Hireling: One who is hired for service. [df: rykV] KJV (17): servant, hireling, hired - Strongs: H7916 (שָׂכִיר)
bf1 ) erikx (סכירה SKYRH) - Hireling: One who is hired for service. [df: hrykV] KJV (1): hired - Strongs: H7917 (שְׂכִירָה)
nm ) rkxa (אסכר ASKR) - Payment: [df: rksa] KJV (2): gift, present - Strongs: H814 (אֶשְׁכָּר)
acf2 ) trfkxm (מסכורת MSKWRT) - Wage: [df: trkVm] KJV (4): wages, reward - Strongs: H4909 (מַשְׂכֹּרֶת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 hired, of beast Exodus 22:14 (E), razor Isaiah 7:20 (figurative).
2 usually as substantive hireling, hired labourer Deuteronomy 15:18; Deuteronomy 24:14; Leviticus 19:13; Leviticus 22:10; Leviticus 25:6,40,53 (all H), Exodus 12:45; Leviticus 25:50 (both P), Malachi 3:5; Job 7:1,2; Job 14:6; ׳כִּשְׁנֵי שׂ Isaiah 16:14 years like a hireling's years (reckoned strictly), so Isaiah 21:16; mercenaries Jeremiah 46:21.
יִשָּׂשׂכָר see above
שָׂכִיר m. a hireling, Exodus 22:14; Leviticus 19:13. Isaiah 16:14, “in three years כִּשְׁנֵי שָׂכִיר according to the years of a hireling;” i.e. this shall come to pass at this very time, the event shall no longer be deferred, just as a hireling does not protract his daily work beyond the agreed hour. Root שָׂכַר.