ΜΙΣΘΩΤΟΣ, μισθωτος
MISTHŌTOS, misthōtos
Sounds Like: mis-THOH-tos
Translations: hired servant, hired hand, hireling, a hired servant, a hired hand, a hireling
From the root: ΜΙΣΘΩΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to someone who works for wages or pay, a hired worker. It is often used to distinguish a person who works for a salary from a slave or an owner. For example, a hired shepherd might abandon the sheep because they are not his own, unlike the true shepherd.
Inflection: Singular, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3411 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 27:5
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΙΣΘΩΤΟΣ.
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.
- ΜΙΣΘΩΤΕ — hired man, a hired man, hired servant, a hired servant
- ΜΙΣΘΩΤΟΙ — hired servant, hired man, hireling, a hired servant, a hired man, a hireling
- ΜΙΣΘΩΤΟΥ — of a hired servant, of a hired worker, of a hired hand, of a hired laborer
- ΜΙΣΘΩΤΩ — (to) a hired servant, (to) a hireling, (to) a wage earner
- ΜΙΣΘΩΤΩΝ — of hired servants, of hired men, of laborers
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