H7936bVerb20 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Genesis 30:16שָׂכֹר
When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
- Judges 9:4וַיִּשְׂכֹּר
So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.
- 1 Chronicles 19:7וַיִּשְׂכְּרוּ
So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba while the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and marched out for battle.
- 2 Chronicles 25:6וַיִּשְׂכֹּר
He also hired 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
- Nehemiah 6:12שְׂכָרוֹ
I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
- Proverbs 26:10וְשֹׂכֵר
Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or passerby.
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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.