sachar · hire

What it means

sachar (שָׂכַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hire”.

Pay someone for work or for the use of something.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To pay someone to work.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• hired ×13
• earns wages ×2
• hire ×2
• hiring ×2
• whoever hires ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×3
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Haggai×2

• Genesis 30:16

  Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, “To me you must come, for I have surely hired you with the mandrakes of my son.” So he lay with her that night.

• Deuteronomy 23:4

  because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam son of Beor from Pethor of Aram-naharaim to curse you.

• Judges 9:4

  They gave him seventy pieces of silver from the house of Baal-berith, and with them Abimelech hired empty and reckless men, and they followed him.

• Judges 18:4

  And he said to them, “Thus and thus Micah has done for me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”

• 1 Samuel 2:5

  Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger; even the barren woman has borne seven, and she who has many sons languishes.

• 2 Samuel 10:6

  When the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the sons of Ammon sent and hired Aram of Beth-rehob and Aram of Zobah, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah, a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men.

• 2 Kings 7:6

  Adonai had caused the camp of Aram to hear the sound of chariots, the sound of horses, the sound of a great force; and they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us.”

• 1 Chronicles 19:6

  When the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, Hanun and the sons of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves from Aram-naharaim and from Aram of Maacah and from Zobah chariots and horsemen.

• 1 Chronicles 19:7

  They hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people; and they came and encamped before Medeba. And the sons of Ammon gathered from their cities and came to battle.

• 2 Chronicles 24:12

  The king and Jehoiada gave it to those doing the work of the service of the house of YHWH; and they were hiring stonecutters and craftsmen to renew the house of YHWH, and also craftsmen in iron and bronze to repair the house of YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 25:6

  He hired from Israel a hundred thousand mighty men of valor for a hundred talents of silver.

• Ezra 4:5

  and hiring counselors against them to frustrate their counsel all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, and until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

• Nehemiah 6:12

  And I recognized, and in fact, that it was not Elohim who had sent him, but he had spoken the prophecy against me, and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

• Nehemiah 6:13

  For this purpose he was hired: so that I would be afraid and act so and sin, and it would become for them an evil name, so that they could reproach me.

• Nehemiah 13:2

  because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and with water, and he hired against him Balaam to curse him; but our Elohim turned the curse into a blessing.

• Proverbs 26:10

  An archer who wounds everyone is whoever hires a senseless man, and whoever hires those who pass by.

• Isaiah 46:6

  Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh silver on the rod of the scale, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; they fall down, also they bow down.

• Haggai 1:6

  You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, and there is no satisfaction; you drink, and there is no drunkenness; you clothe yourselves, and there is no warmth for anyone; and the one who earns wages earns wages for a bag with holes.

And 3 more times.