Definition

payment of contract; concretely, salary, fare, maintenance; by implication, compensation, benefit

Etymology

from H7936 (שָׂכַר);

Word family

• שָׂכַר sâkar

How the KJV renders it

• hire
• price
• reward(-ed)
• wages
• worth

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.