# H7936 שָׂכַר

שָׂכַר (sâkar), Strong’s H7936: to hire KJV: earn wages, hire (out self), reward, [idiom] surely.. Occurs 21 times.

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*sâkar* — to hire

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

Occurs 21 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [סָכַר] vb. hire;—only Qal Ezr 4:5
- שָׂכַר vb
- שָׂכַר vb. hire
- Qal hire
- Niph. hire oneself out
- Hithp. earn wages

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 30:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=16) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 23:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/23?v=5) — because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired…
- [Judges 9:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=4) — They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless…
- [Judges 18:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/18?v=4) — He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”
- [1 Samuel 2:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=5) — Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne…
- [2 Samuel 10:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/10?v=6) — When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians…
- [2 Kings 7:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/7?v=6) — 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…
- [Isaiah 46:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/46?v=6) — Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They…
- [Haggai 1:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/haggai/1?v=6) — You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with…
- [Proverbs 26:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/26?v=10) — As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires those who pass by.