Hebrew verb · H7936
שָׂכַר
sakarsaw-kar'
to hire; to hire
21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sâkar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7936is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7936
to hire
The King James renders it: earn wages, hire (out self), reward, [idiom] surely.
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
sakar is rendered "to hire; to hire". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Three of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to hire".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 30:16When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
Genesis 30:16שָׂכֹ֣ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in thirteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to hire, and to hire.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to hireStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 30:16When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said… |
| to hireStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he hired2
- and hires2
- and they hired2
- and he had hired1
- and he has hired me1
- and hiring1
- and the earns wages1
- certainly to hire1
- earning wages1
- he had hired him1
- he has hired1
- he hired1
and 6 more, 21 uses in all
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.
All 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
19 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
- וַיִּשְׂכֹּ֨ר2
- וְשֹׂכֵ֥ר2
- וְהַ֨מִּשְׂתַּכֵּ֔ר1
- וַיִּשְׂכֹּ֣ר1
- וַיִּשְׂכְּרוּ֩1
- וַיִּשְׂכְּר֣וּ1
- וַיִּשְׂכְּרֵ֕נִי1
- וְסֹכְרִ֧ים1
- יִשְׂכְּר֤וּ1
- לִשְׂכֹּ֣ר1
- מִשְׂתַּכֵּ֖ר1
- נִשְׂכָּ֔רוּ1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqw3ms3Hc/Vqw3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HC/Vqrmsa
- Hc/Vqw3mp2Hc/Vqw3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singular1HC/Td/Vtrmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HC/Vqrmpa
- Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bs1Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bs
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute1HVqaa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp1cs/Sp2ms
Genesis
two uses
When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
- שָׂכֹ֣רsakhorverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to hire
- שְׂכַרְתִּ֔יךָsekhartikhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I have hired you
Deuteronomy
one use
For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.
- שָׂכַ֨רsakharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he hired
Judges
two uses
So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.
- וַיִּשְׂכֹּ֨רvaiyiskorHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he hired
“Micah has done this and that for me,” he replied, “and he has hired me to be his priest.”
- וַיִּשְׂכְּרֵ֕נִיvaiyiskereniHc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bstagged: and he has hired me
1 Samuel
one use
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
- נִשְׂכָּ֔רוּniskaruverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they hire themselves out
2 Samuel
one use
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.
- וַיִּשְׂכְּרוּ֩vaiyiskeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they hired
2 Kings
one use
For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”
- שָֽׂכַר־sakhar-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has hired
1 Chronicles
two uses
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.
- לִשְׂכֹּ֣רliskorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to hire
So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba while the Ammonites came from their cities and marched out for battle.
- וַיִּשְׂכְּר֣וּvaiyiskeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they hired
2 Chronicles
two uses
Then the king and Jehoiada would give the money to those who supervised the labor on the house of the LORD to hire stonecutters and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, as well as workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.
- שֹׂכְרִים֙sokherimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: hiring
He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
- וַיִּשְׂכֹּ֣רvaiyiskorHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he hired
Ezra
one use
They hired counselors against them to frustrate their plans throughout the reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- וְסֹכְרִ֧יםvesokherimconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and hiring
Nehemiah
three uses
I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
- שְׂכָרֽוֹ׃sekharoverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had hired him
He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would sin by doing as he suggested, so they could give me a bad name in order to discredit me.
- שָׂכוּר֙sakhurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: hired
because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).
- וַיִּשְׂכֹּ֨רvaiyiskorHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he had hired
Proverbs
two uses
Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or passerby.
- וְשֹׂכֵ֥רvesokherconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and hires
- וְשֹׂכֵ֥רvesokherconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and hires
Isaiah
one use
They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
- יִשְׂכְּר֤וּyiskeruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they hire
Haggai
two uses
You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
- וְהַ֨מִּשְׂתַּכֵּ֔רvehammistakerconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the earns wages
- מִשְׂתַּכֵּ֖רmistakerverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: earning wages
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.