Greek verb · G3409
μισθόω
misthoomis-tho'-o
to hire
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: misthóō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3409is 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) · G3409
to let out for wages, i.e. (middle voice) to hire
The King James renders it: hire.
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
misthoo is rendered "to hire". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 20:1“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Matthew 20:1μισθώσασθαι
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 Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- has hired1
- to hire1
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 |
| μίσθιος | misthios | hired worker | 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
- ἐμισθώσατο1
- μισθώσασθαι1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AMI-3S
- verb · aorist middle, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AMN
Matthew
two uses
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
- μισθώσασθαιmisthosasthaiverb · aorist middle, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to hire
‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’
- ἐμισθώσατοemisthosatoverb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has hired
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.