Job 7:1
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
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Hireling
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John 10:13
The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
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שָׂכִיר
sâkîyr · saw-keer'
6 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
a man at wages by the day or year
Strong's KJV usage: hired (man, servant), hireling.
Strong's first: Job 7:1Strong's last: Malachi 3:5
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misthōtós · mis-tho-tos'
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a wage-worker (good or bad)
Strong's KJV usage: :--hired servant, hireling.
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Strong's first: John 10:12Strong's last: John 10:13
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Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
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As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
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Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
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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.
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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:
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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.
G3411
But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
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The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
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The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
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hireling
HI'RELING, noun One who is hired, or who serves for wages.
1. A mercenary; a prostitute.
HI'RELING, adjective Serving for wages; venal; mercenary; employed for money or other compensation.
A tedious crew
Of hireling mourners.
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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