Quick Definition
a hired servant
Strong's Definition
a wage-worker (good or bad)
Derivation: from G3409 (μισθόω);
KJV Usage: hired servant, hireling
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μισθωτός, μισθωτοῦ, ὁ (μισθόω), one hired, a hireling: Mar_1:20; Joh_10:12 f (Aristophanes, Plato, Demosthenes, others; the Sept. for ωΘ�λΔιψ.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μισθωτός misthōtos 3x
a hireling, Mar_1:20 ; Joh_10:12-13
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
μισθωτός , -ή , όν ,
( < μισθόω ),
[in LXX for H7916 , Exo_12:45 , al. ;]
hired; as subst ., ὁ μ ., a hired servant, hireling: Mar_1:20 , Joh_10:12-13 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μισθωτός [page 414]
CPR I. 1 .6 (A.D. 83 84) τοῦ Ἀκουσιλάου γενομένου μισθωτοῦ τινων οὐσίων , Syll 587 .29 (B.C. 329 8) μισθωτοῖς τοῖς ἐπὶ τὸν πύργον καὶ τὸν πυλῶνα πλινθοφοροῦσιν ( carrying bricks ) καὶ πηλοδευστοῦσιν ( building with clay ). For μισθωτής , lessee, tenant, which is not found in the NT (but see 1Ma_6:29 ), cf. P Tebt II. 308 .4 (A.D. 174) μισθωτα [ῖ ]ς δρυμῶν , lessees of marshes (Edd.), P Lond 478 .2 (ii/iii A.D.) (=II. p. III) τοῖς λοι (ποῖς ) μισ̣θ̣ω̣τ̣α̣ι̣ͅς̣ ἱερ (οῦ ) χει (ρισμοῦ ) (cf. Archiv i. p. 140), and PSI III. 222 .4 (iii/A.D.) μισ ]θωτοῦ ἀγρίων θήρας ζῴων [κ ]αὶ ὀρνέων (see the editor s introd.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
μισθωτός μισθωτός, ή, όν [Etym: from μισθόω] "hired", Hdt. , Plat. as Subst. "an hireling, hired servant", Ar. : of soldiers, in pl., "mercenaries", Hdt. , Thuc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
μισθωτός, -ή, όν
(μισθόω), [in LXX for שָׂכִיר, Exo.12:45, al. ;]
hired; as subst., ὁ μ., a hired servant, hireling: Mrk.1:20, Jhn.10:12-13.†
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