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STRONGS NUMBER H7916

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Word Summary
sakir: hired
Original Word: שָׂכִיר
Transliteration: sakir
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-keer')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: hired
Meaning: a man at wages
Strong's Concordance
hired man, servant, hireling

From sakar; a man at wages by the day or year -- hired (man, servant), hireling.

see HEBREW sakar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7916. sakir

שָׂכִיר‎ adjective hired; — absolute ׳שׂ‎ Exodus 14:45 +, feminine שְׂכִירָה‎ Isaiah 7:20; construct שְׂכֹיר‎ Leviticus 25:53; suffix שְׂכִירְךָ‎ 25:6; plural suffix שְׂכִרֶיהָ‎ Jeremiah 46:21; —

1 hired, of beast Exodus 22:14 (E), razor Isaiah 7:20 (figurative).

2 usually as substantive hireling, hired labourer Deuteronomy 15:18; 24:14; Leviticus 19:13; 22:10; 25:6, 40, 53 (all H), Exodus 12:45; Leviticus 25:50 (both P), Malachi 3:5; Job 7:1-2, 14:6; שׂ ׳כִּשְׁנֵי‎ Isaiah 16:14 years like a hireling's years (reckoned strictly), so 21:16; mercenaries Jeremiah 46:21.

יִשָּׂשׂכָר‎ see above





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