misthos · wages, reward

What it means

misthos (μισθός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “wages, reward”.

Pay, wages; reward.

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. What is earned for work.
2. The prize God gives.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

• reward ×19
• wages ×9
• as the wage ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×10
• Mark×1
• Luke×3
• John×1
• Acts×1
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×4
• 1 Timothy×1
• James×1
• 2 Peter×2
• 2 John×1
• Jude×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 5:12

  Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

• Matthew 5:46

  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

• Matthew 6:1

  “Be careful not to practice your righteousness before people in order to be seen by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

• Matthew 6:2

  So when you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be glorified by people. Truly I tell you, they have received in full their reward.

• Matthew 6:5

  “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, for they are fond of praying standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the main streets, so that they may be seen by people. Truly I tell you, they have received in full their reward.

• Matthew 6:16

  “And when you fast, do not become gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to people as fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received in full their reward.

• Matthew 10:41

  The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one who receives a righteous man because he is righteous will receive a righteous man’s reward.

• Matthew 10:42

  And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water to drink because he is a disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”

• Matthew 20:8

  And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard says to his steward, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last up to the first.’

• Mark 9:41

  For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in the name that you belong to the Messiah, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.

• Luke 6:23

  Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for look, your reward is great in heaven; for their fathers used to do the same things to the prophets.

• Luke 6:35

  Rather, love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and evil.

• Luke 10:7

  And remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things offered by them; for the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move from house to house.

• John 4:36

  the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.

• Acts 1:18

  Now this man acquired a field with the wages of his unrighteousness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle, and all his bowels poured out.

• Romans 4:4

  Now to the one who works, the wages are not counted as a favor but as what is owed.

• 1 Corinthians 3:8

  Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

• 1 Corinthians 3:14

  If anyone’s work that he built on it remains, he will receive a reward.

• 1 Corinthians 9:17

  For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

• 1 Corinthians 9:18

  What then is my reward? That in proclaiming the good news I may offer the good news free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the good news.

• 1 Timothy 5:18

  For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing,” and, “The worker is worthy of his wages.”

• James 5:4

  Look, the wages of the workers who mowed your fields, withheld by you, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Tsevaot.

• 2 Peter 2:13

  suffering wrong as the wage of their unrighteousness. They consider luxury in broad daylight a pleasure; they are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.

• 2 Peter 2:15

  Forsaking the straight way, they have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

• 2 John 1:8

  Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

• Jude 1:11

  Woe to them, because they have walked in the way of Cain, and for wages have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam, and perished in the opposition of Korah.

• Revelation 11:18

  And the nations raged, and your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to your slaves the prophets and to the saints and to those who fear your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

• Revelation 22:12

  “Look, I am coming soon, and my reward is with me, to repay each one as his work is.

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