שָׂכִיר sâkîyr

Meaning

a man at wages by the day or year

In the King James Version: hired (man, servant), hireling.

Derivation: from H7936 (שָׂכַר);

Where it is used

• Exodus 12:45 A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.
• Exodus 22:15 If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.
• Leviticus 19:13 You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
• Leviticus 22:10 No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.
• Leviticus 25:6 Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,
• Leviticus 25:40 Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
• Leviticus 25:50 He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
• Leviticus 25:53 He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
• Deuteronomy 15:18 Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
• Deuteronomy 24:14 Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
• Job 7:1 “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
• Job 7:2 Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
• Job 14:6 look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
• Isaiah 16:14 And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”
• Isaiah 21:16 For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
• Jeremiah 46:21 Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them—the time of their punishment.
• Malachi 3:5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.