misthōtos

Strong’sG3411

a hired servant

stem misthōt-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.

μισθωτός, -ή, όν,

(< μισθόω), [in LXX for שָׂכִיר, Ex 12:45, al.;]

hired; as subst., ὁ μ., a hired servant, hireling: Mk 1:20, Jo 10:12, 13.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3411 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmis-tho-tos'

a wage-worker (good or bad)

Fromfrom G3409;

King Jameshired servant, hireling.

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

μισθ-ωτός, ή, όν,
hired, ἐπίκουροι Refs 5th c.BC+
II substantive, hireling, hired servant, NT+5th c.BC+: frequently of soldiers, mercenaries, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a spy or agent, Refs 4th c.BC+

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.

hired hand2×hired men1×

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	misthōtos2×μισθωτὸς	misthōtas	misthōtem	misthōtois	misthōtais	misthōteim
object accusative	misthōton	misthōtan		misthōtoin	misthōtain
direct address vocative	misthōtor	misthōtar		misthōtoir	misthōtair
of, belonging to genitive	misthōtou	misthōtau	misthōteu	misthōtoiu1×μισθωτῶν	misthōtaiu	misthōteiu
to, for dative	misthōto	misthōta	misthōte	misthōtoi	misthōtai	misthōtei

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

misthōtstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

misthōt 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.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

misthōtos“hired hand”subjectnominative singular2×

John 10:12tos misthōtos kai ouk arōntos poimenos, hou ouk …The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the …

John 10:13“hired hand”hoti misthōtos atō kai ouk meleiatō auto peri …… runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned …

misthōtoiu“hired men”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Mark 1:20… Zebedaion en te ploie meta toiu misthōtoiu aperchala opisō autou.… Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.