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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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Jeremiah 46:21
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 46:21 · retained source text

Also her hired men are in the midst of her, like fatted bullocks, for they also are turned backe, and are fled away together; they did not stand, because the day of their calamitie was come vpon them, and the time of their visitation.

1611 marginal noteHebr. bullocks of the stall.

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