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# שֶׂכֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7938

**hire** — used 2 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

hire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7938/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׂ֫כֶר: hire, wages [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7938/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] hire, wages;—abs. עֹשֵׂי שׂ׳ Is 19:10 (= שָׂכִיר; cstr. Pr 11:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of wage\[s\] (1); wage\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 11:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.18/#tree)

רָשָׁ֗ע עֹשֶׂ֥ה פְעֻלַּת־שָׁ֑קֶר וְזֹרֵ֥עַ צְ֝דָקָ֗ה שֶׂ֣כֶר אֱמֶֽת׃

*Word for word:* a.wicked.\[person\] \[is\].making wage\[s\] of.falsehood and \[one.who\].sows righteousness wage\[s\] of.truth

*JPS 1917:* The wicked earneth deceitful wages; but he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.

[Isaiah 19:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.10/#tree)

וְהָי֥וּ שָׁתֹתֶ֖יהָ מְדֻכָּאִ֑ים כָּל־עֹ֥שֵׂי שֶׂ֖כֶר אַגְמֵי־נָֽפֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.be foundations its crushed all \[those.who\].work of.wage\[s\] \[will.be\].grieved of.soul

*JPS 1917:* And her foundations shall be crushed, all they that make dams shall be grieved in soul.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7938.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7938/): 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).