Occurrences
Sâkar occurs 21 times in 18 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Deuteronomy (1), Judges (2), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (1), 2 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (2), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (3), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (1), Haggai (1)
- 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 (שְׂכַרְתִּ֔יךָ) thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
- 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 (שָׂכֹ֣ר) thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
- 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 (שָׂכַ֨ר) against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
- Judges 9:4 — And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired (וַיִּשְׂכֹּ֨ר) vain and light persons, which followed him.
- Judges 18:4 — And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired (וַיִּשְׂכְּרֵ֕נִי) me, and I am his priest.
- 1 Samuel 2:5 — They that were full have hired out themselves (נִשְׂכָּ֔רוּ) for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
- 2 Samuel 10:6 — And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired (וַיִּשְׂכְּרוּ֩) the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men.
- 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 said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired (שָֽׂכַר) against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
- 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 of silver to hire (לִשְׂכֹּ֣ר) them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah.
- 1 Chronicles 19:7 — So they hired (וַיִּשְׂכְּר֣וּ) thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
- 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 (שֹׂכְרִים֙) masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 25:6 — He hired (וַיִּשְׂכֹּ֣ר) also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
- Ezra 4:5 — And hired (וְסֹכְרִ֧ים) counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- 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 (שְׂכָרֽוֹ) him.
- Nehemiah 6:13 — Therefore was he hired (שָׂכוּר֙), that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
- Nehemiah 13:2 — Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired (וַיִּשְׂכֹּ֨ר) Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
- Proverbs 26:10 — The great God that formed all things both rewardeth (וְשֹׂכֵ֥ר) the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
- Proverbs 26:10 — The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth (וְשֹׂכֵ֥ר) transgressors.
- Isaiah 46:6 — They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire (יִשְׂכְּר֤וּ) a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
- 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 there is none warm; and he that earneth wages (וְהַ֨מִּשְׂתַּכֵּ֔ר) earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
- 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 there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages (מִשְׂתַּכֵּ֖ר) to put it into a bag with holes.