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סָכַר

sa.khar

to hire

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Strong’s H7936aVerb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

were hiring1

In the text

Ezra 4:5וְסֹכְרִים
They hired counselors against them to frustrate their plans throughout the reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[סָכַר] vb. hire;—only Qal Ezr 4:5

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.