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Word Study · Strong's H7916 · Hebrew

שָׂכִיר

sakir

saw-keer'

Strong's 1890 spelling: sâkîyr

a man at wages by the day or year

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a man at wages by the day or year

Rendered in the KJV as

hired (man, servant), hireling.

  • 17
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 11
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 17 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 11

  • שָׂכִ֔יר3
  • וְשָׂכִ֖יר2
  • כְּשָׂכִ֥יר2
  • שָׂכִ֣יר2
  • שָׂכִ֖יר2
  • וּ֝כְשָׂכִ֗יר1
  • וְלִשְׂכִֽירְךָ֙1
  • כִּשְׂכִ֥יר1
  • שָׂכִ֛יר1
  • שָׂ֠כִיר1
  • שְׂכִרֶ֤יהָ1

How it is rendered · 8

  • a hired laborer8
  • and a hired laborer2
  • like a hired laborer2
  • [was] hired1
  • and like a hired laborer1
  • and to hired laborer your1
  • hired soldiers its1
  • like a hired laborer of1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 7

  • adjective · masculine singular9
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular2
  • preposition + adjective · masculine singular2
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + adjective · masculine singular1
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1
  • preposition + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HAamsa · 9
  • HC/Aamsa · 2
  • HR/Aamsa · 2
  • HAampc/Sp3fs · 1
  • HC/R/Aamsa · 1
  • HC/R/Aamsc/Sp2ms · 1
  • HR/Aamsc · 1

All 17, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Leviticus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Exodus2 occurrences
Leviticus6 occurrences
Deuteronomy2 occurrences
Job3 occurrences
Isaiah2 occurrences
Jeremiah1 occurrence
Malachi1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).