שָׂכִיר sakhir

Hebrew word for “hired” · Strong’s H7916 · used 17 times in 17 verses

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Meaning

1) hired; 1a) hired (of animal); 1b) hireling, hired labourer (subst); 1b1) mercenary

How it is translated

Glosses given for sakhir in context, with how often each is used:

• hired laborer 11
• like a hired laborer 4
• hired 1
• hired soldiers 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 25 (4), Job 7 (2), Exodus 12 (1), Exodus 22 (1), Leviticus 19 (1), Leviticus 22 (1), Deuteronomy 15 (1), Deuteronomy 24 (1), Job 14 (1), Isaiah 16 (1)

Forms

• שׂכיר 9
• כשׂכיר 3
• ושׂכיר 2
• ולשׂכירך 1
• וכשׂכיר 1
• שׂכריה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with sakhir more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• תּוֹשָׁב toshav “sojourner” 4
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 6
• שָׂכָר sakhar “wages” 3
• עָשַׁק ashaq “to oppress” 3
• עִם im “with” 6
• יוֹבֵל yovel “jubilee/horn” 2
• עַד ad “till” 4
• גֵּר ger “sojourner” 2
• כָּבוֹד kavod “glory” 2
• עָבַד avad “to serve” 2
• צָבָא tsava “Hosts” 2
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 2

Key verses

The verses using sakhir that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 19:13 — Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
• Leviticus 22:10 — There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
• Leviticus 25:6 — And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that…
• Leviticus 25:50 — And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto…
• Deuteronomy 24:14 — Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
• Job 7:1 — Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
• Job 7:2 — As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
• Job 14:6 — Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
• Isaiah 16:14 — But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude;…
• Isaiah 21:16 — For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
• Jeremiah 46:21 — Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day…
• Malachi 3:5 — And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.