sachir · hired worker

What it means

sachir (שָׂכִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hired worker”.

A laborer paid by the day or by the year.

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. Someone who works for pay.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hired worker ×14
• hired laborer ×1
• hired soldiers ×1
• it was hired ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×6
• Deuteronomy×2
• Job×3
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Malachi×1

• Exodus 12:45

  A temporary resident or a hired laborer shall not eat of it.

• Exodus 22:15

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

• Leviticus 19:13

  You shall not oppress your neighbor and you shall not rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not stay overnight with you until morning.

• Leviticus 22:10

  And no stranger shall eat a holy thing; the temporary resident of a priest and the hired worker shall not eat a holy thing.

• Leviticus 25:6

  And the Sabbath of the land shall be for you for food: for you and for your male slave and for your female slave and for your hired worker and for your temporary resident, those who reside with you,

• Leviticus 25:40

  He shall be with you as a hired worker, as a temporary resident; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.

• Leviticus 25:50

  And he shall calculate with the one who bought him from the year he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the silver of his sale shall be according to the number of years; as the days of a hired worker it shall be with him.

• Leviticus 25:53

  As a hired worker year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with harshness before your eyes.

• 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 24:14

  You shall not exploit a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether of your brothers or of your resident aliens who are in your land, within your gates.

• Job 7:1

  Is there not service for a mortal on earth, and like the days of a hired worker are his days?

• Job 7:2

  Like a slave who pants for the shade, and like a hired worker who hopes for his wages,

• Job 14:6

  look away from him that he may cease, until he takes pleasure, like a hired worker, in his day.

• Isaiah 16:14

  But now YHWH has spoken, saying, “Within three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt with all the great multitude; and the remnant will be small, tiny, not mighty.”

• Isaiah 21:16

  For thus Adonai said to me: “Within a year, like the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end;

• Jeremiah 46:21

  Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like calves from the stall; for they too have turned back, they have fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

• 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.