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# hire

verb (hire, hires, hired, hiring); noun (hire)

«hire» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To hire is to pay to use something for a time (UK), like hiring a boat or bikes; in the USA people usually say «rent». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#m1)
2. To hire someone is to give them a job and pay them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#m2)
3. Hire is paying to use something: «bike hire», «for hire». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#m3)

### In the lessons

paying for time: cost per hour × hours; workers hired; in everyday life: hiring bikes at the park, a car hire for a holiday, «for hire» on a taxi; in jobs: a company hires new workers; phrases: «for hire», «hire out», «car hire»

### Examples

- They hire a boat for $15 an hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x1)
- The shop hires 3 new workers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x2)
- How much to hire bikes for 4 hours? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x3)
- A bus is hired for the trip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x4)
- We hired a canoe on the lake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x5)
- The taxi light shows it is for hire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x6)
- The school hired a new music teacher. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x7)
- They hire out their hall for parties. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/#x8)

### Note

Cost = rate × time; often plus a fixed fee. Workers hired add to the staff. Homophone: «higher» sounds the same. UK «hire a car» = US «rent a car».

## In Jewish tradition

Wages paid to a worker, or paying a worker. A hired servant was a paid worker, not a member of the family. It can also mean paying soldiers, and the prophet uses it of Ephraim "hiring lovers", paying other nations for help.

**Interpretation.** The Torah commands paying a worker on the same day, and tradition counts delaying wages as a wrong. Hosea's "hired lovers" is read as Israel buying alliances with foreign powers instead of trusting God.

### Examples

- A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof. (Torah EXO.12.45, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hire/#x1)
- And Leah said: 'God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. (Torah GEN.30.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hire/#x2)
- If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good; if it be a hireling, he loseth his hire. (Torah EXO.22.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hire/#x3)
- For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself; Ephraim hath hired lovers. (Prophets HOS.8.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hire/#x4)
- He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver. (Writings 2CH.25.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hire/#x5)
- So they hired them thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people; who came and encamped before Medeba. (Writings 1CH.19.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hire/#x6)

### Note

Cost = rate × time; often plus a fixed fee. Workers hired add to the staff. Homophone: «higher» sounds the same. UK «hire a car» = US «rent a car».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «hire» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hire/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hire» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/hire.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «hire» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hire/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hire» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/hire.html) on Mova free.