Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to hire
Usage: 1) to hire 1a) (Qal) to hire
Sakar means “earn wages” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7936 שָׂכַר סָכַר (sakar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. sakar (saw-kar') (or (by permutation) cakar (Ezra 4) v. 1. to hire [a primitive root (apparently akin (by prosthesis) to H3739 through the idea of temporary purchase)] It has 18 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include hire and have. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
sakar (saw-kar') (or (by permutation) cakar (Ezra 4) v. 1. to hire [a primitive root (apparently akin (by prosthesis) to H3739 through the idea of temporary purchase)] KJV: earn wages, hire (out self), reward, X surely. Root(s): H3739 Compare: H7937
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to hire
Usage: 1) to hire 1a) (Qal) to hire
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sakar, 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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18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7936.
And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out of Zobah.
So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, 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 a bag with holes.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7936, grouped by book.
Sakar (Strong's H7936) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "earn wages". sakar (saw-kar') (or (by permutation) cakar (Ezra 4) v. 1. to hire [a primitive root (apparently akin (by prosthesis) to H3739 through the idea of temporary purchase)]
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H7936 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7936 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hire and have. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.