H7936 · שָׂכַר
sâkar · saw-kar' · hire, reward, wages
H7936 (sâkar, pronounced saw-kar') is the Hebrew word שָׂכַר in Strong’s dictionary: to hire. It appears 21 times in 18 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- שָׂכַר (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- sâkar
- Pronunciation
- saw-kar'
- Derivation
- or (by permutation) סָכַר; (Ezra 4:5), a primitive root (apparently akin (by prosthesis) to H3739 (כָּרָה) through the idea of temporary purchase; compare H7937 (שָׁכַר));
- Definition
- to hire
- Rendered in the KJV
- earn wages, hire (out self), reward, [idiom] surely.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
21 occurrences in 18 verses (19 with English words of their own, 2 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “hired” ×2
- “to hire” ×2
- “He also hired” ×1
- “I have hired you” ×1
- “So they hired” ×1
- “They hired” ×1
- “You earn wages” ×1
- “and he has hired me” ×1
By book
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Verses
- Genesis 30:16
- Deuteronomy 23:4
- Judges 9:4
- Judges 18:4
- 1 Samuel 2:5
- 2 Samuel 10:6
- 2 Kings 7:6
- 1 Chronicles 19:6
- 1 Chronicles 19:7
- 2 Chronicles 24:12
- 2 Chronicles 25:6
- Ezra 4:5
- Nehemiah 6:12
- Nehemiah 6:13
- Nehemiah 13:2
- Proverbs 26:10
- Isaiah 46:6
- Haggai 1:6
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H7936.