Misthios means “hired servant” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3407 — yeriah (“curtain”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3407 μίσθιος (misthios) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. misthios (mis'-thee-os) adj. 1. a wage-earner [from G3408] It has 7 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include hired. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
misthios (mis'-thee-os) adj. 1. a wage-earner [from G3408] KJV: hired servant Root(s): G3408
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3407. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
hired worker
Usage: μίσθιος, -α, -ον (also -ος, -ον), [in LXX: Lev.19:13 A Lev.25:50, Job.7:1 (שָׂכִיר), Tob.5:11, Sir.7:10 31:22 37:11 * ;] hired; as subst., ὁ μ., a hired servant: Luk.15:17, 19 15:21 (Anth., Plut.).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render misthios, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3407 (μίσθιος) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
then shall he calculate with his purchaser from the year that he sold himself to him until the year of release: and the money of his purchase shall be as that of a hireling, he shall be with him from year to year.
Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? And his existence as that of a hireling by the day?
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Whereas thy servant worketh truly, entreat him not evil, Nor the hireling that bestoweth himself wholly for thee.
My son, hear me, and despise me not, And at the last thou shalt find as I told thee: In all thy works be quick, So shall there no sickness come unto thee.
Neither consult with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous; Neither with a coward in matters of war; Nor with a merchant concerning exchange; Nor with a buyer of selling; Nor with an envious man of thankfulness; Nor with an unmerciful man touching kindness; Nor with the slothful for any work; Nor with a hireling for a year of finishing work; Nor with an idle servant of much business: Hearken not unto these in any matter of counsel.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3407.
then shall he calculate with his purchaser from the year that he sold himself to him until the year of release: and the money of his purchase shall be as that of a hireling, he shall be with him from year to year.
Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? And his existence as that of a hireling by the day?
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Whereas thy servant worketh truly, entreat him not evil, Nor the hireling that bestoweth himself wholly for thee.
My son, hear me, and despise me not, And at the last thou shalt find as I told thee: In all thy works be quick, So shall there no sickness come unto thee.
Neither consult with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous; Neither with a coward in matters of war; Nor with a merchant concerning exchange; Nor with a buyer of selling; Nor with an envious man of thankfulness; Nor with an unmerciful man touching kindness; Nor with the slothful for any work; Nor with a hireling for a year of finishing work; Nor with an idle servant of much business: Hearken not unto these in any matter of counsel.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3407, grouped by book.
Misthios (Strong's G3407) is a Greek word most simply glossed "hired servant". misthios (mis'-thee-os) adj. 1. a wage-earner [from G3408]
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G3407 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3407 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hired. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3407, with linked reader references where each row is available.