KJV dictionary & concordance

hire

Meaning of “hire”

Sense 1: Payment, wages, reward, or return for labour, service, or use. Sense 2: To employ or obtain work for payment.

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23 occurrences21 verses12 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Genesis 30:18

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But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

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The 1611 reading

1611 witness · Exodus 22:15 · retained source text

But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: If it bee an hired thing, it came for his hire.

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