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HebrewH7936Verb

סָכַר

sa.khar

17Occurrences
H7936Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to hire

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));

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. to hire 1a) (Qal) to hire

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

H:V

Full Description

Hebrew Verb

Occurrences

סָכַר appears 17 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Nehemiah
3
1 Chronicles
2
2 Chronicles
2
Judges
2
1 Samuel
1
2 Kings
1
2 Samuel
1
Ezra
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 19:6BSB

When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.

2 Chronicles 24:12BSB

Then the king and Jehoiada would give the money to those who supervised the labor on the house of the LORD to hire stonecutters and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, as well as workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.

2 Samuel 10:6BSB

When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.

Haggai 1:6BSB

You have planted muchbut harvested little.You eat but never have enough.You drink but never have your fill.You put on clothes but never get warm.You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”

Judges 9:4BSB

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.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.