Strong’s G3411 · Greek
μισθωτός
misthōtós · mis-tho-tos'
Origin from μισθόω (G3409);
Meaning a wage-worker (good or bad)
In the King James Version hired servant, hireling.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Mark 1:20And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
- John 10:12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
- John 10:13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.