# שָׂכַר (sakhar)

Israeli respelling: sa-khar. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7936. 18 Old Testament occurrences.

to hire

King James renderings: earn wages, hire (out self), reward, [idiom] surely.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/sakhar-h7936

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 30:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/16) — And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired…
- [Deuteronomy 23:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/23/4) — Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam…
- [Judges 9:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/4) — And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, whi…
- [Judges 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/18/4) — And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
- [1 Samuel 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/5) — They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that…
- [2 Samuel 10:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/10/6) — And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syr…
- [2 Kings 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/7/6) — For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they…
- [1 Chronicles 19:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/19/6) — And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents o…
- [1 Chronicles 19:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/19/7) — So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the childre…
- [2 Chronicles 24:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/24/12) — And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repai…
- [2 Chronicles 25:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/25/6) — He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
- [Ezra 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/4/5) — And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king o…
- [Nehemiah 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/12) — And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
- [Nehemiah 6:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/13) — Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might re…
- [Nehemiah 13:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/2) — Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit ou…
- [Proverbs 26:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/10) — The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
- [Isaiah 46:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/46/6) — They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they w…
- [Haggai 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/haggai/1/6) — Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but ther…