G3407: μίσθιος
místhios · “hired worker”
Definition
a wage-earner
KJV translates it as: hired servant
Word origin: from G3408 (μισθός);
Extended definition
μίσθιος, -α, -ον
(also -ος, -ον), [in LXX: Lev.19:13 A Lev.25:50, Job.7:1 (שָׂכִיר), Tob.5:11, Sir.7:10 31:22 37:11 * ;]
hired; as subst., ὁ μ., a hired servant: Luk.15:17, 19 15:21 (Anth., Plut.).†
(AS)
(also -ος, -ον), [in LXX: Lev.19:13 A Lev.25:50, Job.7:1 (שָׂכִיר), Tob.5:11, Sir.7:10 31:22 37:11 * ;]
hired; as subst., ὁ μ., a hired servant: Luk.15:17, 19 15:21 (Anth., Plut.).†
(AS)
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How G3407 is translated
- hired servants ×1
- servants ×1
Bible verses with G3407 (místhios)
Místhios appears in 2 verses.
- Luke 15:17
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
- Luke 15:19
And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.