μισθωτός
misthōtos · hired hand
Greek word · Strong’s number G3411 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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misthōtos (μισθωτός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “hired hand”.
Worker paid by the day.
How to say it
mis·thō·tos
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
- A worker paid by the day or task.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- hired hand ×2
- hired men ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Mark 1:20
And at once he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, they went away after him.
- John 10:12
The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters them.
- John 10:13
He flees because he is a hired hand and does not care about the sheep.