Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H7939
שָׂכָר
sa.khar · “wages”
Used 28 times across 14 books
Definition
1) hire, wages
1a) wages
1b) reward, pay
1c) fare, fee, passage-money
1a) wages
1b) reward, pay
1c) fare, fee, passage-money
Where it appears
Genesis7
Exodus2
Numbers1
Deuteronomy2
1 Kings1
2 Chronicles1
Psalms1
Ecclesiastes2
Isaiah2
Jeremiah1
Ezekiel2
Jonah1
Zechariah4
Malachi1
In the text
Genesis 15:1After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.Genesis 30:18And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.Genesis 30:28And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.Genesis 30:32I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.Genesis 30:33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.Genesis 31:8If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.Exodus 2:9And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.Exodus 22:14And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.Numbers 18:31And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.Deuteronomy 15:18It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
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