Strong's #7936: sakar (pronounced saw-kar')

or (by permutation) cakar (Ezra 4:5) {saw-kar'}; a primitive root (apparently akin (by prosthesis) to 3739 through the idea of temporary purchase; compare 7937); to hire:--earn wages, hire (out self), reward, X surely.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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śâkar / sâkar

1) to hire

1a) (Qal) to hire

1b) (Niphal) to hire oneself out

1c) (Hithpael) to earn wages

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [apparently akin (by prosthesis) to H3739 through the idea of temporary purchase]

Usage:

This word is used 21 times:

 

Genesis 30:16: "Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay"
Genesis 30:16: "Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay"
Deuteronomy 23:4: "in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee"
Judges 9:4: "out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons,"
Judges 18:4: "and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest."
1 Samuel 2:5: "They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born"
2 Samuel 10:6: "the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians"
2 Kings 7:6: "Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites,"
1 Chronicles 19:6: "a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia,"
1 Chronicles 19:7: " So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people;"
2 Chronicles 24:12: "of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair"
2 Chronicles 25:6: " He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred"
Ezra 4:5: " And hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus"
Nehemiah 6:12: "against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired"
Nehemiah 6:13: "Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin,"
Nehemiah 13:2: "of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse"
Proverbs 26:10: "The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors."
Proverbs 26:10: "all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors."
Isaiah 46:6: "out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god:"
Haggai 1:6: "ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages"
Haggai 1:6: "but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into"