H7936 Hebrew

שָׂכַר

sâkar (saw-kar')
to hire

KJV Translations of H7936

earn wages, hire (out self), reward, [idiom] surely.

Word Origin & Derivation

or (by permutation) סָכַר; (Ezra 4:5), a primitive root (apparently akin (by prosthesis) to H3739 (כָּרָה) through the idea of temporary purchase; compare H7937 (שָׁכַר));

H7936 in the King James Bible

18 verses
Deuteronomy 23:4 שָׂכַ֨ר

Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

Ezra 4:5 וְסֹֽכְרִ֧ים

And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Genesis 30:16 שְׂכַרְתִּ֔יךָ

And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

Haggai 1:6 מִשְׂתַּכֵּ֖ר

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

1 Chronicles 19:6 לִשְׂכֹּ֣ר

And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah.

1 Chronicles 19:7 וַיִּשְׂכְּר֣וּ

So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

1 Samuel 2:5 נִשְׂכָּ֔רוּ

They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

2 Chronicles 24:12 שֹֽׂכְרִים֙

And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 25:6 וַיִּשְׂכֹּ֣ר

He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

2 Kings 7:6 שָֽׂכַר

For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.