Strong's Hebrew · H7939

שָׂכָר

sâkâr · saw-kawr'

hire, price, reward(-ed), wages, worth.

Definition

payment of contract; concretely, salary, fare, maintenance; by implication, compensation, benefit

Derivation

from H7936 (שָׂכַר);

Appears 28 times in Scripture

Genesis 30:33

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.”

Malachi 3:5

“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.

Genesis 30:28

And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”

Genesis 15:1

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.”

Genesis 30:18

Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.

Exodus 2:9

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.

Genesis 31:8

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.

Genesis 30:32

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.

Exodus 22:15

If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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