Greek adjective · G3407
μίσθιος
misthiosmis'-thee-os
hired worker
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: místhios
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3407is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3407
a wage-earner
The King James renders it: hired servant.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
misthios is rendered "hired worker". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 15:17Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
Luke 15:17μίσθιοι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- hired servants1
- servants1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μισθός | misthos | wage | Uses29 |
| μισθωτός | misthotos | hired worker | Uses3 |
| μισθαποδοσία | misthapodosia | recompense | Uses3 |
| μισθόω | misthoo | to hire | Uses2 |
| μίσθωμα | misthoma | rented home | Uses1 |
| μισθαποδότης | misthapodotes | rewarder | Uses1 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- μίσθιοι1
- μισθίων1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1A-GPM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1A-NPM
Luke
two uses
Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
- μίσθιοιmisthioiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: hired servants
I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’
- μισθίωνmisthionadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: servants
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.