TRV
שָׁכַר
How the KJV Renders It
TranslationStrong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
MorphologyIn the Hebrew Old Testament, this word appears as a verb and an adjective across 19 occurrences, inflected in 16 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it.
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הִשְׁכַּרְתִּי
- Hiphil
- The causative stem — the subject causes the action.
- Consecutive Perfect
- Perfect with vav — continues a sequence into the future.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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שִׁכְרוּ
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperative
- A command or entreaty.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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תִּשְׁכְּרִי
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
- Feminine
- Feminine grammatical gender.
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הַשְׁכִּירֻ
- Hiphil
- The causative stem — the subject causes the action.
- Imperative
- A command or entreaty.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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אַשְׁכִּיר
- Hiphil
- The causative stem — the subject causes the action.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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תִּשְׁתַּכָּרִי
- Hithpael
- Reflexive-intensive — the subject acts upon itself.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
- Feminine
- Feminine grammatical gender.
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אֲשַׁכְּרֵ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Conjunction+Imperfect
- Imperfect joined by a simple "and".
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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יְשַׁכְּרֵ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Consecutive Imperfect
- Imperfect with vav — carries narrative forward ("and he…").
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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שַׁכֵּר
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
- Construct
- Bound to a following noun — "the X of…".
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מְשַׁכֶּרֶת
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Singular
- One.
- Feminine
- Feminine grammatical gender.
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun (not bound to another).
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יִּשְׁכְּרוּ
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Consecutive Imperfect
- Imperfect with vav — carries narrative forward ("and he…").
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יִּשְׁכָּר
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Consecutive Imperfect
- Imperfect with vav — carries narrative forward ("and he…").
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יִשְׁכָּרוּ
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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שָׁכְרָה
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
- Construct
- Bound to a following noun — "the X of…".
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שָׁכְרוּ
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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שְׁכֻרַת
- Singular
- One.
- Feminine
- Feminine grammatical gender.
- Construct
- Bound to a following noun — "the X of…".
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 19 verses across 11 of the 39 books. Most frequent in Jeremiah (5 verses); never once in the other 28.
Every Occurrence
ConcordanceEvery verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.