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Strong's #7916: sakiyr (pronounced saw-keer')

from 7936; a man at wages by the day or year:--hired (man, servant), hireling.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׂ

śâkı̂yr

1) hired

1a) hired (of animal)

1b) hireling, hired labourer (substantive)

1b1) mercenary

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from H7936



Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

Exodus 12:45: "A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat"
Exodus 22:15: "make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for his hire."
Leviticus 19:13: "neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until"
Leviticus 22:10: "eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing."
Leviticus 25:6: "meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with"
Leviticus 25:40: " But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year"
Leviticus 25:50: "shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant shall it be with"
Leviticus 25:53: "And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over"
Deuteronomy 15:18: "free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving"
Deuteronomy 24:14: "Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or"
Job 7:1: "earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?"
Job 7:2: "As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as a hireling looketh for the reward of his work:"
Job 14:6: "from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day."
Isaiah 16:14: "Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all"
Isaiah 21:16: "me, Within a year, according to the years of a 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"
Malachi 3:5: "and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside"









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