sachar · wages

What it means

sachar (שָׂכָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wages”.

Pay for work; 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 given to someone for the work he did, in money or goods.
2. What God gives in return for what is done: blessing or reward.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• wages ×19
• reward ×4
• wage ×3
• fare ×1
• hire ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×7
• Exodus×2
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Jonah×1
• Zechariah×4
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 15:1

  After these things the word of YHWH came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram; I am a shield to you; your reward will be very great.”

• Genesis 30:18

  Leah said, “Elohim has given me my wages, because I gave my slave woman to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.

• Genesis 30:28

  And he said, “Name your wages to me, and I will give it.”

• Genesis 30:32

  Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there every animal speckled and spotted, and every dark animal among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such will be my wages.

• Genesis 30:33

  So my righteousness will answer for me in time to come, when you come to look over my wages before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, or dark among the lambs, if it is with me, will be counted as stolen.”

• Genesis 31:8

  If he said this, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said this, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.

• Exodus 2:9

  The daughter of Pharaoh said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

• Exodus 22:15

  If its owner was with it, he shall not repay. If it was hired, its hire covers the loss.

• Numbers 18:31

  And you may eat it in every place, you and your households, for it is your wages in return for your service in the tent of meeting.

• Deuteronomy 15:18

  It shall not seem hard in your eyes when you let him go free from you, for twice the wages of a hired worker he has served you six years; and YHWH your Elohim will bless you in all that you do.

• Deuteronomy 24:15

  On his day you shall give him his wages, and the sun shall not go down on him, for he is poor and to it he lifts up his soul; so that he does not cry out against you to YHWH, and it be sin in you.

• 1 Kings 5:6

  And now, command that they cut for me cedars from Lebanon; and my servants shall be with your servants, and the wages of your servants I will give you according to all that you say; for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

• 2 Chronicles 15:7

  But you, be strong, and do not let your hands go slack, for there are wages for your work.”

• Psalms 127:3

  Look, an inheritance from YHWH are children, a reward is the fruit of the womb.

• Ecclesiastes 4:9

  Two are better than one, because they have good wages for their toil.

• Ecclesiastes 9:5

  For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything, and there are no more wages for them, for their memory is forgotten.

• Isaiah 40:10

  Look, Adonai YHWH comes with might, and his arm rules for him; look, his reward is with him, and his wages before him.

• Isaiah 62:11

  Look, YHWH has made it heard to the end of the earth: “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Look, your salvation comes; look, his reward is with him, and his wages before him.’”

• Jeremiah 31:16

  Thus says YHWH: “Keep back your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for there is a wage for your work, declares YHWH, and they will return from the land of the enemy.

• Ezekiel 29:18

  “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army perform a great labor against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; and there was no wage for him or for his army from Tyre for the labor that he labored against her.

• Ezekiel 29:19

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am giving to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon the land of Egypt; and he will carry off her multitude and take her spoil and plunder her booty, and it will be the wage for his army.

• Jonah 1:3

  But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of YHWH. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; he paid its fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, from the presence of YHWH.

• Zechariah 8:10

  For before those days the wages of human beings did not exist, and the wages of livestock were none; and for the one going out and for the one coming in there was no peace because of the adversary; and I let loose all human beings, each against his neighbor.

• Zechariah 11:12

  And I said to them, “If it is good in your eyes, give me my wages; and if not, leave it.” And they weighed out my wages: thirty pieces of silver.

• Malachi 3:5

  And I will draw near to you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who exploit the wages of the hired worker, the widow and the orphan, and against those who turn aside the right of the resident alien, and do not fear me, says YHWH Tsevaot.

And 3 more times.