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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.
Read in context →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.
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ʼethnan · eth-nan'
a gift (as the price of harlotry or idolatry)
Strong's KJV usage: hire, reward.
Strong's first: Micah 1:7Strong's last: Micah 1:7
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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.
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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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