Greek noun (masculine) · G3411
μισθωτός
misthotosmis-tho-tos'
hired worker
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: misthōtós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3411is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3411
a wage-worker (good or bad)
The King James renders it: hired servant, hireling.
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
misthotos is rendered "hired worker". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 1:20Immediately Jesus called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Immediately Jesus called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.
Mark 1:20μισθωτῶν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a hired servant1
- hired servant1
- hired 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 |
| μισθαποδοσία | misthapodosia | recompense | Uses3 |
| μισθόω | misthoo | to hire | Uses2 |
| μίσθιος | misthios | hired worker | Uses2 |
| μίσθωμα | misthoma | rented home | Uses1 |
| μισθαποδότης | misthapodotes | rewarder | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- μισθωτός1
- μισθωτὸς1
- μισθωτῶν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2N-NSM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1N-GPM
Mark
one use
Immediately Jesus called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.
- μισθωτῶνmisthotonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: hired servants
John
two uses
The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.
- μισθωτὸςmisthotosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: hired servant
The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep.
- μισθωτόςmisthotosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a hired servant
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.