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Strong's #7939 - שָׂכָר
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- hire, wages
- wages
- reward, pay
- fare, fee, passage-money
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2479) rkx (סכר SKR) AC: Hire CO: Wage AB: ?: A payment of wages or reward for services. [from: kx- as a covering for services] (eng: succor, secure)
V) rkx (סכר SKR) - Hire: [df: rkV] KJV (21): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hitpael) hire, reward, wage - Strongs: H7936 (סָכַר)
Nm ) rkx (סכר SKR) - Wage: The reward or price paid for ones labor. [df: rkV] KJV (30): hire, reward, wage, price, fare, worth, sluice - Strongs: H7938 (שֶׂכֶר), H7939 (שָׂכָר)
bm ) rikx (סכיר SKYR) - Hireling: One who is hired for service. [df: rykV] KJV (17): servant, hireling, hired - Strongs: H7916 (שָׂכִיר)
bf1 ) erikx (סכירה SKYRH) - Hireling: One who is hired for service. [df: hrykV] KJV (1): hired - Strongs: H7917 (שְׂכִירָה)
nm ) rkxa (אסכר ASKR) - Payment: [df: rksa] KJV (2): gift, present - Strongs: H814 (אֶשְׁכָּר)
acf2 ) trfkxm (מסכורת MSKWRT) - Wage: [df: trkVm] KJV (4): wages, reward - Strongs: H4909 (מַשְׂכֹּרֶת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 wages, of servant, Genesis 30:28; Genesis 30:32; Genesis 30:83 (J), Genesis 31:8 (twice in verse); Exodus 2:9 (all E), Deuteronomy 15:18 (שָׂכִיר׳שְׂ), Deuteronomy 24:15; 1 Kings 5:20; Zechariah 8:10; Malachi 3:5 (שָׂכִיר׳שְׂ); soldiers Ezekiel 29:18,19; shepherd (symbol) Zechariah 11:12 (twice in verse); beast Exodus 22:14 (E), Zechariah 8:10.
2 = reward, for work done, faithfulness, etc., Genesis 15:1 (JE), Genesis 30:18 (E) in explanation of name יששכר, Numbers 18:31 (P), כִּילִפְעֻלָּתֵךְ ׳יֵשׁ שׂ Jeremiah 31:16 (cf, 2 Chronicles 15:7), Isaiah 40:10 = Isaiah 62:11 (figurative of reward of ׳י s labours), Psalm 127:3; Ecclesiastes 4:9; Ecclesiastes 9:5.
3 passage-money, fare, Jonah 1:3.
שִׁכְּ מִי adjective, of a people of שֶׁכֶם, with article as collective noun ׳הַשּׁ Numbers 26:31.
שָׂכָר m.
(1) wages (of a hireling), Genesis 30:28, 32 Genesis 30:32; Deuteronomy 15:18 price, for which anything is hired, Exodus 22:14, gener. any kind of reward, Genesis 15:1.
(2) [Sacar], pr.n. m.
(a) 1 Chronicles 26:4.
(b) 1 Chronicles 11:35 for which in the similar place 2 Samuel 23:33 there is שָׂרָר.