μισθωτόςmisthōtós
GreekG34114 occurrences (KJV)
a wage-worker (good or bad)
KJV renders it: hired servant, hireling
Where it appears(showing the first 3 of 4)
- Mark 1:20Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
- John 10:12He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
- John 10:13The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.