μισθωτός
hireling
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3411 appears in the Book of John — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
John
- John 10:12 μισθωτὸς n nom sg masc He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
- John 10:13 μισθωτός n nom sg masc The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, μισθωτος (misthōtós) means “hireling.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to John (67%), then Mark. Scripture first uses it in Mark 1:20. It shares a root with μισθοω, μισθαποδοτης and μισθωμα. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3411 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 100%
- Johannine 2 verses · 67%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Hireling 3×
- American Standard Version: He 1×, Hired servants 1×, Hireling 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hired hand 1×, Hired men 1×, Hired servant 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hired man 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3411 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3411 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3411 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3411 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- one hired, a hireling
Word origin
Derived from μισθοω (misthóō) (G3409) — to hire.
From G3409 ; a wage worker (good or bad): - hired servant hireling.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G3411 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μισθωτός misthōtós | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | John 10:13 | 1 |
| μισθωτὸς misthōtòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | John 10:12 | 1 |
| μισθωτῶν misthōtō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Mark 1:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3411, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μισθωτος appears 16 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 16 verses in 7 books.
- 16
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 16
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 12:45 μισθωτός
- Leviticus 19:13 μισθωτός
- Deuteronomy 15:18 μισθωτός
- Job 7:2 μισθωτός
- Isaiah 16:14 μισθωτός
- Jeremiah 26:21 μισθωτός
- Malachi 3:5 μισθωτός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3411) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 12:45 μισθωτός A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
- Exodus 22:14 μισθωτός "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.
- Leviticus 19:13 μισθωτός "'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
- Leviticus 22:10 μισθωτός "'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
- Leviticus 25:6 μισθωτός The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
- Leviticus 25:40 μισθωτός As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:
- Leviticus 25:53 μισθωτός As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
- Deuteronomy 15:18 μισθωτός It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
- Job 7:2 μισθωτός As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, As a hireling who looks for his wages,
- Job 14:6 μισθωτός Look away from him, that he may rest, Until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
- Isaiah 16:14 μισθωτός But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no account.
- Isaiah 21:16 μισθωτός For thus has the Lord said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;
- Isaiah 28:1 μισθωτός Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine!
- Isaiah 28:3 μισθωτός The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot:
- Jeremiah 26:21 μισθωτός and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:
- Malachi 3:5 μισθωτός I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Hosts.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3411) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
