שָׂכָרsâkâr

שָׂכָר: hire, wages, only singular, not with article

Pronunciation: saw-kawr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7939

Meanings

1. wages (Genesis 30:28; Genesis 30:32; Genesis 30:83)

2. = reward, for work done, faithfulness, etc. (Genesis 15:1; Genesis 30:18; Numbers 18:31)

3. passage-money, fare (Jonah 1:3)

שִׁכְּ מִי: of שֶׁכֶם, with article as collective noun (Numbers 26:31)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 28 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 15:1 Some time later, the Lord spoke to Abram in a vision and said to him, “Do not be afraid, Abram, for I will protect you, and your reward will be great.”
  • Genesis 30:18 She named him Issachar, for she said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband as a wife.”
  • Genesis 30:28 Tell me how much I owe you. Whatever it is, I’ll pay it.”
  • Genesis 30:32 Let me inspect your flocks today and remove all the sheep and goats that are speckled or spotted, along with all the black sheep. Give these to me as my wages.
  • Genesis 30:33 In the future, when you check on the animals you have given me as my wages, you’ll see that I have been honest. If you find in my flock any goats without speckles or spots, or any sheep that are not black, you will know that I have stolen them from you.”
  • Genesis 31:8 For if he said, ‘The speckled animals will be your wages,’ the whole flock began to produce speckled young. And when he changed his mind and said, ‘The striped animals will be your wages,’ then the whole flock produced striped young.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).