Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
wages
Usage: 1) hire, wages 1a) wages 1b) reward, pay 1c) fare, fee, passage-money
Sakar means “hire” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7939 שָׂכָר (sakar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. sakar (saw-kawr') n-m. 1. payment of contract 2. (concretely) salary, fare, maintenance It has 25 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include hire, my, reward, and fare. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
sakar (saw-kawr') n-m. 1. payment of contract 2. (concretely) salary, fare, maintenance 3. (by implication) compensation, benefit [from H7936] KJV: hire, price, reward(-ed), wages, worth. Root(s): H7936
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H7939. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
wages
Usage: 1) hire, wages 1a) wages 1b) reward, pay 1c) fare, fee, passage-money
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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25 indexed usages in Old Testament.
After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
First 25 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7939.
After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
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.
And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
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.
At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
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 H7939, grouped by book.
Sakar (Strong's H7939) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "hire". sakar (saw-kawr') n-m. 1. payment of contract 2. (concretely) salary, fare, maintenance
This page currently indexes 25 linked usages for Strong's H7939 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7939 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hire, my, reward, and fare. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.