Genesis 30:18
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
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Hire
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James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
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4 occurrences in 4 verses.
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שָׂכָר
sâkâr · saw-kawr'
9 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
payment of contract; concretely, salary, fare, maintenance; by implication, compensation, benefit
Strong's KJV usage: hire, price, reward(-ed), wages, worth.
Strong's first: Genesis 30:18Strong's last: Zechariah 8:10
Open full H7939 profile →אֶתְנַן
ʼethnan · eth-nan'
7 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
a gift (as the price of harlotry or idolatry)
Strong's KJV usage: hire, reward.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 23:18Strong's last: Micah 1:7
Open full H868 profile →μισθός
misthós · mis-thos'
3 times translated as this KJV form31 total Strong's occurrences
pay for service (literally or figuratively), good or bad
Strong's KJV usage: :--hire, reward, wages.
Strong's first: Matthew 20:8Strong's last: James 5:4
Open full G3408 profile →שָׂכַר
sâkar · saw-kar'
2 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to hire
Strong's KJV usage: earn wages, hire (out self), reward, × surely.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 19:6Strong's last: Isaiah 46:6
Open full H7936 profile →μισθόω
misthóō · mis-tho'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to let out for wages, i.e. (middle voice) to hire
Strong's KJV usage: :--hire.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 20:1Strong's last: Matthew 20:1
Open full G3409 profile →מְחִיר
mᵉchîyr · mekk-eer'
1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
price, payment, wages
Strong's KJV usage: gain, hire, price, sold, worth.
Strong's first: Micah 3:11Strong's last: Micah 3:11
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H868
And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
H868
And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
H4242
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
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hire
HIRE, verb transitive
1. To procure from another person and for temporary use, at a certain price, or for a stipulated or reasonable equivalent; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire a horse for a day; to hire money at legal interest.
2. To engage in service for a stipulated reward; to contract with for a compensation; as, to hire a servant for a year; to hire laborers by the day or month.
3. To bribe; to engage in immoral or illegal service for a reward.
To hire out one's self, to let; to engage one's service to another for a reward.
They have hired out themselves for bread. 1 Samuel 2:5.
To hire or to hire out, to let; to lease; to grant the temporary use of a thing for a compensation. He has hired out his house or his farm.
HIRE, noun
1. The price, reward or compensation paid or contracted to be given for the temporary use of any thing.
2. Wages; the reward or recompense paid for personal service.
The laborer is worthy of his hire Luke 10:7.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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