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hired

Meaning of “hired”

Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of hire, meaning to employ or obtain work for payment.

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34 occurrences34 verses19 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 30:16

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Exodus 22:15
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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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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