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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Hired

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

34exact KJV occurrences 28Old Testament 6New Testament 19books containing the word 6mapped Strong's IDs 21occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 30:16

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.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Acts 28:30

And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where hired appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH8566
תָּנָה

tânâh · taw-naw'

2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

v

to present (a mercenary inducement), i.e. bargain with (a harlot)

Strong's KJV usage: hire.

Strong's first: Hosea 8:9Strong's last: Hosea 8:10

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HebrewH7917
שְׂכִירָה

sᵉkîyrâh · sek-ee-raw'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

a

a hiring

Strong's KJV usage: that is hired.

Strong's first: Isaiah 7:20Strong's last: Isaiah 7:20

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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34 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Genesis 30:16
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.

Exodus 12:45
no direct Strong's tag

A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

Exodus 22:15
H7916

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.

Leviticus 19:13
H7916

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.

Leviticus 22:10
no direct Strong's tag

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.

Leviticus 25:6
no direct Strong's tag

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,

Leviticus 25:40
no direct Strong's tag

But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

Leviticus 25:50
no direct Strong's tag

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.

Leviticus 25:53
no direct Strong's tag

And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

Deuteronomy 15:18
no direct Strong's tag

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.

Deuteronomy 23:4
H7936

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.

Deuteronomy 24:14
no direct Strong's tag

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:

Judges 9:4
H7936

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.

Judges 18:4
H7936

And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.

1 Samuel 2:5
no direct Strong's tag

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.

2 Samuel 10:6
H7936

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.

2 Kings 7:6
H7936

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.

1 Chronicles 19:7
H7936

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.

2 Chronicles 24:12
H7936

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.

2 Chronicles 25:6
H7936

He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

Ezra 4:5
H7936

And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Nehemiah 6:12
H7936

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.

Nehemiah 6:13
H7936

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.

Nehemiah 13:2
H7936

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.

Isaiah 7:20
H7917

In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

hired

HI'RED, participle passive Procured or taken for use, at a stipulated or reasonable price; as a hired farm.

1. Employed in service for a compensation; as a hired man; a hired servant.

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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