שָׂכִירsâkîyr/saw-keer'/
HebrewH791617 occurrences (KJV)
a man at wages by the day or year
KJV renders it: hired (man, servant), hireling.
Where it appears
- Exod 12:45A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
- Exod 22:15If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.
- Lev 19:13“‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
- Lev 22:10“‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
- Lev 25:6The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
- Lev 25:40As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:
- Lev 25:50He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.
- Lev 25:53As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
- Deut 15:18It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for he has been double value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
- Deut 24:14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
- Job 7:1“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
- Job 7:2As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
- Job 14:6Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
- Isa 16:14But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”
- Isa 21:16For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
- Jer 46:21Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.
- Mal 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.