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μισθός G3408

G3408 is the Greek word μισθός, transliterated misthós. The King James Version most often renders it reward.

Word: μισθόςTransliteration: misthósLanguage: GreekIn the KJV: 23 verses

What it means

pay for service (literally or figuratively), good or bad.

Where it comes from

apparently a primary word.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 23 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

reward 18×hire 3×wages 2×

Strong's own list of renderings: hire, reward, wages.

Verses using μισθός

All 23 verses, quoted in full.

Matthew 5:12 · KJV

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Matthew 5:46 · KJV

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

Matthew 6:1 · KJV

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 10:41 · KJV

He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.

Matthew 20:8 · KJV

So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

Luke 6:23 · KJV

Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Luke 6:35 · KJV

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

Luke 10:7 · KJV

And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.

John 4:36 · KJV

And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

Acts 1:18 · KJV

Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

Romans 4:4 · KJV

Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

1 Corinthians 3:8 · KJV

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

1 Corinthians 3:14 · KJV

If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

1 Corinthians 9:17 · KJV

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

1 Corinthians 9:18 · KJV

What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

1 Timothy 5:18 · KJV

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

James 5:4 · KJV

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.

2 Peter 2:13 · KJV

And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

2 Peter 2:15 · KJV

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;

2 John 1:8 · KJV

Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

Jude 1:11 · KJV

Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

Revelation 11:18 · KJV

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

Revelation 22:12 · KJV

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

Common questions

What does Strong's G3408 mean?

G3408 is the Greek word μισθός (misthós), meaning pay for service (literally or figuratively), good or bad.

How is G3408 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it reward (18 times), hire (3 times), wages (2 times).

How many times does G3408 appear in the Bible?

μισθός (misthós) is tagged in 23 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does G3408 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: apparently a primary word.

Nearby entries

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