Genesis 29:15
And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
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Wages
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2 Peter 2:15
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
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שָׂכָר
sâkâr · saw-kawr'
6 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 30:28Strong's last: Malachi 3:5
Open full H7939 profile →ὀψώνιον
opsṓnion · op-so'-nee-on
3 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
rations for a soldier, i.e. (by extension) his stipend or pay
Strong's KJV usage: :-- wages.
Strong's first: Luke 3:14Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 11:8
Open full G3800 profile →מַשְׂכֹּרֶת
maskôreth · mas-koh'-reth
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
wages or a reward
Strong's KJV usage: reward, wages.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 29:15Strong's last: Genesis 31:41
Open full H4909 profile →μισθός
misthós · mis-thos'
2 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: John 4:36Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:15
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: Haggai 1:6Strong's last: Haggai 1:6
Open full H7936 profile →חִנָּם
chinnâm · khin-nawm'
1 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
gratis, i.e. devoid of cost, reason or advantage
Strong's KJV usage: without a cause (cost, wages), causeless, to cost nothing, free(-ly), innocent, for nothing (nought, in vain.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 22:13Strong's last: Jeremiah 22:13
Open full H2600 profile →פְּעֻלָּה
pᵉʻullâh · peh-ool-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
(abstractly) work
Strong's KJV usage: labour, reward, wages, work.
Strong's first: Leviticus 19:13Strong's last: Leviticus 19:13
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H4909
And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
H7939
And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
H4909
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
H7939
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.
H4909
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
H7939
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.
H6468
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.
H2600
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
H7939
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:
H7939
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.
H7936
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
H7936
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
H7939
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.
G3800
And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
G3408
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
G3800
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
G3800
I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
G3408
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
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wages
WAGES, noun plural in termination, but singular in signification.
1. Hire; reward; that which is paid or stipulated for services; but chiefly for services by manual labor, or for military and naval services. We speak of servants wages a laborers wages or soldiers wages; but we never apply the word to the rewards given to men in office, which are called fees or salary. The word is however sometimes applied to the compensation given to representatives in the legislature. [U. States]
Tell me, what shall thy wages be? Genesis 29:15.
Be content with your wages Luke 3:14.
2. Reward; fruit; recompense; that which is given or received in return.
The wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23.
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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