Hebrew adjective · H7916
שָׂכִיר
sakirsaw-keer'
hired
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sâkîyr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7916is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7916
a man at wages by the day or year
The King James renders it: hired (man, 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
sakir is rendered "hired". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Six of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 12:45A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.
Exodus 12:45וְשָׂכִ֖יר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's seventeen uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a hired laborer8
- and a hired laborer2
- like a hired laborer2
- and like a hired laborer1
- and to hired laborer your1
- hired1
- hired soldiers its1
- like a hired laborer of1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- שָׂכִ֔יר3
- וְשָׂכִ֖יר2
- כְּשָׂכִ֥יר2
- שָׂכִ֣יר2
- שָׂכִ֖יר2
- וּ֝כְשָׂכִ֗יר1
- וְלִשְׂכִֽירְךָ֙1
- כִּשְׂכִ֥יר1
- שָׂכִ֛יר1
- שָׂ֠כִיר1
- שְׂכִרֶ֤יהָ1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular9HAamsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular2HC/Aamsa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular2HR/Aamsa
- adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HAampc/Sp3fs
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HC/R/Aamsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/R/Aamsc/Sp2ms
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Aamsc
Exodus
two uses
A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.
- וְשָׂכִ֖ירvesakhirconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a hired laborer
If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.
- שָׂכִ֣ירsakhiradjective · masculine singulartagged: hired
Leviticus
six uses
You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
- שָׂכִ֛ירsakhiradjective · masculine singulartagged: a hired laborer
No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.
- וְשָׂכִ֖ירvesakhirconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a hired laborer
Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,
- וְלִשְׂכִֽירְךָ֙veliskhirekhaconjunction (“and”) + preposition + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and to hired laborer your
Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
- כְּשָׂכִ֥ירkesakhirpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: like a hired laborer
He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
- שָׂכִ֖ירsakhiradjective · masculine singulartagged: a hired laborer
He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
- כִּשְׂכִ֥ירkiskhirpreposition + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like a hired laborer of
Deuteronomy
two uses
Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
- שָׂכִ֔ירsakhiradjective · masculine singulartagged: a hired laborer
Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
- שָׂכִ֖ירsakhiradjective · masculine singulartagged: a hired laborer
Job
three uses
“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
- שָׂכִ֣ירsakhiradjective · masculine singulartagged: a hired laborer
Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
- וּ֝כְשָׂכִ֗ירukhesakhirconjunction (“and”) + preposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and like a hired laborer
look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
- כְּשָׂכִ֥ירkesakhirpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: like a hired laborer
Isaiah
two uses
And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”
- שָׂכִ֔ירsakhiradjective · masculine singulartagged: a hired laborer
For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
- שָׂכִ֔ירsakhiradjective · masculine singulartagged: a hired laborer
Jeremiah
one use
Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them—the time of their punishment.
- שְׂכִרֶ֤יהָsekhireihaadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: hired soldiers its
Malachi
one use
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- שָׂ֠כִירsakhiradjective · masculine singulartagged: a hired laborer
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.