Sakhir שָׂכִיר

Sakhir (Hebrew שָׂכִיר, Strong's H7916) is a Hebrew adjective meaning “hired”. It occurs 17 times in 17 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Topics

• Employers and employees

Verses

Every verse with Sakhir, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 12:45
  A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.
• Exodus 22:15
  But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.

Leviticus

• Leviticus 19:13
  Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
• Leviticus 22:10
  There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.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
  And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,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
  But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: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
  And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.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
  And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.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

• Deuteronomy 15:18
  It 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.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
  Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: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

• Job 7:1
  Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
• Job 7:2
  As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
• Job 14:6
  Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 16:14
  But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.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 thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: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

• Jeremiah 46:21
  Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.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

• Malachi 3:5
  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.“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.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).