Hebrew Strong's Lexicon

H7939

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: שָׂכָר

Transliteration: saw-kawr'

Definition: from שָׂכַר; payment of contract; concretely, salary, fare, maintenance; by implication, compensation, benefit

KJV Definition: hire, price, reward(-ed), wages, worth

Verse usage

  • Yonas 1:3 NASB
    But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
  • Hagai 1:6 NASB
    "You have sown much, but harvest little; [you] eat, but [there is] not [enough] to be satisfied; [you] drink, but [there is] not [enough] to become drunk; [you] put on clothing, but no one is warm [enough]; and he who earns, earns wages [to put] into a purse with holes."
  • Zakarias 8:10 NASB
    'For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for animal; and for him who went out or came in there was no peace because of his enemies, and I set all men one against another.
  • Zakarias 11:12 NASB
    I said to them, "If it is good in your sight, give [me] my wages; but if not, never mind!" So they weighed out thirty [shekels] of silver as my wages.
  • Malakias 3:5 NASB
    "Then 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 oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me," says the LORD of hosts.