Strong's Hebrew · H7939
H7939 sâkâr
שָׂכָר
saw-kawr'
wages
sâkâr appears 28 times in Scripture, including Genesis 15:1 and Exodus 2:9. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
payment of contract; concretely, salary, fare, maintenance; by implication, compensation, benefit
In the King James Version
hire, price, reward(-ed), wages, worth.
Derivation
from H7936 (שָׂכַר);
Appears 28 times in Scripture
“So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.””
““Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.”
“And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.””
“After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.””
“Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.”
“Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.”
“If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.”
“Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.”
“If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
