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sa.khir H7916

שָׂכִיר (sa.khir) means “hired” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

שָׂכִיר Hebrew · H7916 17 tagged occurrences in 17 verses

Pronunciation guide: saw-keer' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H7916

שָׂכִיר · sa.khir · hired

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

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H7936 (שָׂכַר); a man at wages by the day or year

KJV glosses: hired (man, servant), hireling.

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How translators render H7916

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
as a hired worker 3
of a hired hand 2
a hired hand 1
as a hired hand 1
due a hired hand 1
like a hireling 1
like a man hired 1
of their wages 1
or hired hand 1
or his hired hand 1
the hired hand 1
the mercenaries 1
wages of a hired hand 1
was rented 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
of an hireling 3
hired servant 2
also her hired men 1
an hired 1
an hired servant 1
and an hired servant 1
and as an hireling 1
and for thy hired servant 1
as an hired servant 1
as an hireling 1
of an hired servant 1
of him that is hired 1
or an hired servant 1
the hireling 1

Verses containing H7916

Page 1 of 1. 17 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Exodus 12:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.

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  2. Exodus 22:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.

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    Source alternate reference: 22.14

  3. Leviticus 19:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

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  4. Leviticus 22:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.

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  5. Leviticus 25:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,

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  6. Leviticus 25:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

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  7. Leviticus 25:50 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.

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  8. Leviticus 25:53 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

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  9. Deuteronomy 15:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.

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  10. Deuteronomy 24:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

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  11. Job 7:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

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  12. Job 7:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.

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  13. Job 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

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  14. Isaiah 16:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”

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  15. Isaiah 21:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

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  16. Jeremiah 46:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them—the time of their punishment.

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  17. Malachi 3:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

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