Original Language Studio
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 of Persia.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שָׂכַרsâkar · saw-kar'
H7936 · Hebrew
H7936 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to hire
- Derivation
- or (by permutation) סָכַר; (Ezra 4:5), a primitive root (apparently akin (by prosthesis) to H3739 (כָּרָה) through the idea of temporary purchase; compare H7937 (שָׁכַר));
- KJV renderings
- earn wages, hire (out self), reward, [idiom] surely.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- סֹכְרִ֧ים — verb Qal, active participle, masculine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 21 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 30:16Genesis 30:16Deuteronomy 23:5Judges 9:4Judges 18:4
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שָׂכַר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.