28 occurrences

'Hired' in the Bible

A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.

If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.

Verse ConceptsHiringLossMoney, Uses OfPersons With Things

For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant's son and any hired help may refresh themselves.

Verse ConceptsOxenDonkeysHolidayLaw, OtSlavery, In OtEmployeesRecreationAliens, Believers DutyAnimals, Types OfThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSix DaysDay 7Doing One's WorkNo Work On Feast DaysSabbaths InstitutedRestrelaxation

"'No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest's lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,

Verse ConceptsLaws Restricting Foreigners

You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat -- you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,

Verse ConceptsHiringStrangers

He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

Verse ConceptsYearssales

He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.

Verse ConceptsHiringWagesAccording To Time

He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

Verse ConceptsValuesSix YearsHardship

for they did not meet you with food and water on the way as you came from Egypt, and furthermore, they hired Balaam son of Beor of Pethor in Aram Naharaim to curse you.

Verse ConceptsHiringMoney, Attitudes ToUnkindnessInhospitalityNo FoodCursing Israel

Now this man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.

Verse ConceptsephodsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesShrinesConsecration

He told them what Micah had done for him, saying, "He hired me and I became his priest."

Verse ConceptsHiringUnnamed Priests

When the Ammonites realized that David was disgusted with them, they sent and hired 20,000 foot soldiers from Aram Beth Rehob and Aram Zobah, in addition to 1,000 men from the king of Maacah and 12,000 men from Ish-tob.

Verse ConceptsAmmonitesenemies, of Israel and JudahHiringMercenariesNosesOffenceSmellsSoldiersDislikingA Thousand PeopleEleven To Nineteen ThousandTwenty Thousand And UpHating Peoples

They would then hand over the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord's temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord's temple,

Verse ConceptsBuildingCarpenterswoodworking

They hired 32,000 chariots, along with the king of Maacah and his army, who came and camped in front of Medeba. The Ammonites also assembled from their cities and marched out to do battle.

Verse ConceptsMercenariesThirty Thousand And Up

The king and Jehoiada gave it to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord's temple. They hired carpenters and craftsmen to repair the Lord's temple, as well as those skilled in working with iron and bronze to restore the Lord's temple.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenBronzeCarpentersHiringIronMasonsreinforcement

I recognized the fact that God had not sent him, for he had spoken the prophecy against me as a hired agent of Tobiah and Sanballat.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual PerceptionGod Not Sending

He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.

Verse ConceptsIntimidationFear Of EnemiesOvercoming

for they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)

Verse ConceptsHiringBlessing And CurseCursing Israel

"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

Verse ConceptsLimitednessPunishment, Nature OfHirelingsThe Fact Of ToilstruggleWarLife StrugglesGetting Through Hard Timeshumanity

Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

Verse ConceptsMonotonySlaves

Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

Verse ConceptsHiringHirelingsLeave Them Alone

At that time the sovereign master will use a razor hired from the banks of the Euphrates River, the king of Assyria, to shave the head and the pubic hair; it will also shave off the beard.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBarbersBaldnessBeardsHairsHiringLegsShavingRazorsThe Hair Of The BodyTrimming Facial HairCutting HairBeyond The EuphratesHair

Those who make cloth will be demoralized; all the hired workers will be depressed.

Verse ConceptsWagesPoolsMetaphorical Pillars

They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.

Verse ConceptsActing AloneWild DonkeysNorthern Kingdom Of Israel

Even though they have hired lovers among the nations, I will soon gather them together for judgment. Then they will begin to waste away under the oppression of a mighty king.

Verse ConceptsGathering Israel

Bible Theasaurus

Charter (1 instance)
Employ (8 instances)
Engage (51 instances)
Hired (54 instances)
Lease (2 instances)
Leased (5 instances)

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