Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
hired
Usage: 1) hired 1a) hired (of animal) 1b) hireling, hired labourer (subst) 1b1) mercenary
Sakir means “hireling” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7916 שָׂכִיר (sakiyr) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. sakiyr (saw-keer') adj. 1. a man at wages by the day or year [from H7936] It has 17 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include hired, year, wages, years, and day. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
sakiyr (saw-keer') adj. 1. a man at wages by the day or year [from H7936] KJV: hired (man, servant), hireling. Root(s): H7936
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H7916. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
hired
Usage: 1) hired 1a) hired (of animal) 1b) hireling, hired labourer (subst) 1b1) mercenary
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sakiyr, 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 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.
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17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7916.
A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
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.
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 sojourneth with thee.
But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile.
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 the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
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:
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
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; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
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:
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 of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
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 against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7916, grouped by book.
Sakir (Strong's H7916) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "hireling". sakiyr (saw-keer') adj. 1. a man at wages by the day or year [from H7936]
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H7916 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7916 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hired, year, wages, years, day, and man. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.