And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the Phase; no foreigner shall eat of it. But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat. The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.
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Hireling
//ˈhaɪɹˌlɪŋ//
Synonyms for "hireling" (73 found)
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Related words (36)
Noun(19 words)
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10 translations across 7 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- μισθωτός noun (someone hired to perform unpleasant tasks)
- ἐπίκουρος noun (someone who does a job purely for money)
Bulgarian
1 entries- наемник noun (someone who does a job purely for money)
Danish
1 entries- lejesvend noun (someone hired to perform unpleasant tasks)
Finnish
2 entries- palkkarenki noun (someone who does a job purely for money)
- renki noun (someone hired to perform unpleasant tasks)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌰𐍃𐌽𐌴𐌹𐍃 noun (someone hired to perform unpleasant tasks)
Irish
1 entries- amhas noun (someone hired to perform unpleasant tasks)
Ukrainian
2 entries- на́ймит noun (someone hired to perform unpleasant tasks)
- на́ймит noun (someone who does a job purely for money)
Sample sentences
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No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: and the Star - Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Source: tatoeba (11002089)
Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes alſo like the dayes of an hireling?
Source: wiktionary
When my poor James was in the small-pox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?
Source: wiktionary
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