{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H7936",
  "lemma": "שָׂכַר",
  "transliteration": "sâkar",
  "definition": "to hire",
  "kjv": "earn wages, hire (out self), reward, [idiom] surely.",
  "occurrences": 21,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[סָכַר] vb. hire;—only Qal Ezr 4:5",
    "שָׂכַר vb",
    "שָׂכַר vb. hire",
    "Qal hire",
    "Niph. hire oneself out",
    "Hithp. earn wages"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 30:16",
      "text": "Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 23:5",
      "text": "because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/23?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 9:4",
      "text": "They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 18:4",
      "text": "He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/18?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 2:5",
      "text": "Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 10:6",
      "text": "When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/10?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 7:6",
      "text": "For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots and the sound of horses, even the noise of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/7?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 46:6",
      "text": "Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/46?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Haggai 1:6",
      "text": "You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/haggai/1?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Proverbs 26:10",
      "text": "As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires those who pass by.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/26?v=10"
    }
  ],
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