שָׂכִיר
KJV Translations of H7916
hired (man, servant), hireling.
Word Origin & Derivation
from H7936 (שָׂכַר);
H7916 in the King James Bible
17 versesIt 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.
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:
A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.