μισθωτόςmisthōtós
hired; as as a noun, ὁ μ., a hired servant, hireling: Mark 1:20, John 10:12, John 10:13.
Greek (New Testament) · G3411
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Mark 1:20 He called them at once, and they also followed him, leaving their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired men.
- John 10:12 A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock.
- John 10:13 The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.