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# שָׂכִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7916

**hired** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hired [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7916/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂכִיר: adj. hired [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7916/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. hired;—abs. שׂ׳ Ex 12:45 +, f. שְׂכִירָה Is 7:20; cstr. שְׂכִיר Lv 25:53; sf. שְׂכִירְךָ v 6; pl. sf. שְׂכִרֶיהָ Je 46:21;— hired, of beast Ex 22:14 (E), razor Is 7:20 (fig.). usually as subst. hireling, hired labourer Dt 15:18; 24:14; Lv 19:13; 22:10; 25:6, 40, 53 (all H), Ex 12:45; Lv 25:50 (both P), Mal 3:5; Jb 7:1, 2; 14:6; כִּשְׁנֵי שׂ׳ Is 16:14 years like a hireling’s years (reckoned strictly), so 21:16; mercenaries Je 46:21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a hired laborer (7); of a hired laborer (7); \[was\] a hired animal (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 12:45](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.45/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.45/#tree)

תּוֹשָׁ֥ב וְשָׂכִ֖יר לֹא־יֹ֥אכַל־בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* a.resident.alien and a.hired.laborer not he.will.eat in it

*JPS 1917:* A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.

[Job 7:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.2/#tree)

כְּעֶ֥בֶד יִשְׁאַף־צֵ֑ל וּ֝כְשָׂכִ֗יר יְקַוֶּ֥ה פָעֳלֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* like a.slave \[who\].he.pants.for shade and like a.hired.laborer \[who\].he.waits.eagerly.for wage\[s\] his

*JPS 1917:* As a servant that eagerly longeth for the shadow, and as a hireling that looketh for his wages;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7916.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7916/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).