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# שָׂכָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7939

**hire** — used 28 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/1513/7939/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂכָר: n.m. hire, wages [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7939/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 29:18 hire, wages, only sg., not c. art.;—abs. שׂ׳ Nu 18:31 +, cstr. שְׂכַר Dt 15:18 +, sf. שְׂכָרִי Gn 30:18 +, etc.;— wages, of servant, Gn 30:28, 32, 33 (J), 31:8(×2); Ex 2:9 (all E), Dt 15:18 (שְׂ׳ שָׂכִיר), 24:15; 1 K 5:20; Zc 8:10; Mal 3:5 (שְׂ׳ שָׂכִיר); soldiers Ez 29:18, 19; shepherd (symb.) Zc 11:12(×2); beast Ex 22:14 (E), Zc 8:10. = reward, for work done, faithfulness, etc., Gn 15:1 (JE), 30:18 (E) in expl. of name יששכר, Nu 18:31 (P), כִּי יֵשׁ שׂ׳ לִפְעֻלָּתֵךְ Je 31:16 (cf. 2 Ch 15:7), Is 40:10 = 62:11 (fig. of reward of י׳’s labours), ψ 127:3; Ec 4:9; 9:5. passage-money, fare, Jon 1:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 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: wage\[s\] (11); reward (5); a reward (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 127:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.127.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.127.3/#tree)

הִנֵּ֤ה נַחֲלַ֣ת יְהוָ֣ה בָּנִ֑ים שָׂ֝כָ֗ר פְּרִ֣י הַבָּֽטֶן׃

*Word for word:* here! the.inheritance of.Yahweh \[is\].sons \[is\].a.reward the.fruit of the.womb

*JPS 1917:* Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD; the fruit of the womb is a reward.

[Genesis 30:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.28/#tree)

וַיֹּאמַ֑ר נָקְבָ֧ה שְׂכָרְךָ֛ עָלַ֖י וְאֶתֵּֽנָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said designate wage\[s\] your on me and I.will.give.\[it\]

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7939.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7939/): 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).