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שָׂכִיר H7916
H7916 is the Hebrew word שָׂכִיר, transliterated sâkîyr and said saw-keer'. The King James Version most often renders it hired servant.
What it means
a man at wages by the day or year.
Where it comes from
from H7936 (שָׂכַר).
How the King James Version translates it
Across 15 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: hired (man, servant), hireling.
Verses using שָׂכִיר
All 15 verses, quoted in full.
Exodus 12:45 · KJV
A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
Exodus 22:15 · KJV
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 · KJV
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 · KJV
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 · KJV
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 · KJV
But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
Leviticus 25:53 · KJV
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 · KJV
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 24:14 · KJV
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:
Job 7:2 · KJV
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Job 14:6 · KJV
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Isaiah 16:14 · KJV
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.
Isaiah 21:16 · KJV
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:
Jeremiah 46:21 · KJV
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
Malachi 3:5 · KJV
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.
Common questions
What does Strong's H7916 mean?
H7916 is the Hebrew word שָׂכִיר (sâkîyr), meaning a man at wages by the day or year.
How is H7916 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it hired servant (6 times), hireling (5 times), if it be an hired (1 time), hired (1 time), or an hired servant (1 time), among others.
How many times does H7916 appear in the Bible?
שָׂכִיר (sâkîyr) is tagged in 15 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H7916 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: from H7936 (שָׂכַר).
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