adjective
misthios
Strong’sG3407
a paid worker
stem misthi-2 times in the New Testament2 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† μίσθιος, -α, -ον
(also -ος, -ον), [in LXX: Le 19:13 A 25:50, Jb 7:1 (שָׂכִיר), To 5:11, Si 7:10 31 (34):22 37:11*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3407 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmis'-thee-os
a wage-earner
Fromfrom G3408;
King Jameshired servant.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
salaried, hired, Refs 1st c.AD+
II substantive μίσθιος, ὁ, hired labourer, servant, LXX+3rd c.BC+ (unless = tenant) Refs 2nd c.AD+mercenaries, Refs 1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | misthios | misthias | misthiem | misthiois1×μίσθιοι | misthiais | misthieim |
| object accusative | misthion | misthian | misthioin | misthiain | ||
| direct address vocative | misthior | misthiar | misthioir | misthiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | misthiou | misthiau | misthieu | misthioiu1×μισθίων | misthiaiu | misthieiu |
| to, for dative | misthio | misthia | misthie | misthioi | misthiai | misthiei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
misthi is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
misthiois“hired workers”subjectnominative plural1×
Luke 15:17“hired workers”eis heauton de ercharantos fēate; Posois misthiois tou patrou mu perisseuolō artoiu, mis …Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but here I am, starving to death!
misthioiu“hired workers”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Luke 15:19“hired workers”… su; poiasar min hōs henon toiu misthioiu su.… be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’