2001 Translation

MISTHOS, misthos

Sounds Like: MISTH-os

Translations: wages, reward, pay, a reward, a wage

From the root: ΜΙΣΘΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to payment for work or service, often translated as 'wages' or 'pay'. It can also signify a 'reward' or recompense for actions, whether good or bad. It is typically used in the singular or plural to denote the compensation received.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3406 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 4:12, 21:3

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:96, 9:21, 10:68

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 34:3

Codex Sinaiticus

• Numbers — 18:31
• Psalms — 126:3
• Proverbs — 11:18, 17:8
• Ecclesiastes — 4:9, 9:5
• Wisdom — 5:15
• Sirach — 2:8
• Isaiah — 23:18, 40:10
• Jeremiah — 38:16
• Zechariah — 8:10
• Matthew — 5:12
• Luke — 6:23, 6:35
• Romans — 4:4
• 1 Corinthians — 9:18
• James — 5:4
• Revelation — 22:12
• Epistle of Barnabas — 4:12, 21:3

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 17 — 12:336

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 50:4

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 9:2

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 3:3, 15:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 15:1, 29:15, 30:18, 30:32, 30:33, 31:8
• Leviticus — 19:13
• Numbers — 18:31
• Ruth — 2:12
• 2 Chronicles — 15:7
• Tobit — 4:14
• Psalms — 126:3
• Proverbs — 11:18, 17:8
• Ecclesiastes — 4:9, 9:5
• Wisdom — 5:15
• Sirach — 2:8
• Isaiah — 23:18, 40:10
• Jeremiah — 38:16
• Ezekiel — 27:27, 29:18, 29:19
• Zechariah — 8:10

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 5:12
• Luke — 6:23, 6:35
• Romans — 4:4
• 1 Corinthians — 9:18
• James — 5:4
• Revelation — 22:12

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΙΣΘΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἈΜΙΣΘΙ — without pay, without wages, for nothing, freely
• ΜΙΣΘ — reward, a reward, wages, pay, hire, a recompense
• ΜΙΣΘΙΟΣ — hired, mercenary, wage-earner, a hired man, a mercenary
• ΜΙΣΘΟ — reward, a reward, wages, pay, hire, a hire
• ΜΙΣΘΟΝ — wage, wages, reward, pay, a wage, a reward
• ΜΙΣΘΟΥ — of reward, of wage, of pay, of hire, a reward, a wage, pay, hire
• ΜΙΣΘΟΥΣ — wages, a wage, reward, a reward, pay, a pay, hire, a hire
• ΜΙΣΘΩΜΑΤΑ — wages, payments, rewards, hire
• ΜΙΣΘΩΝ — of wages, of reward, of pay, of hire

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