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# hireling

«hireling» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person who works only for pay** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A person who works only for pay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hireling/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A paid worker, here one who watches an animal and is not responsible for it as an owner would be. Interpretation: The law of the paid guardian is discussed in the Talmud, which sets different duties for the unpaid guardian, the paid guardian and the hirer.

### examples

- If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good; if it be a hireling, he loseth his hire. (Torah EXO.22.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hireling/#x1)
- And are not his days like the days of a hireling? (Writings JOB.7.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hireling/#x2)
- Look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day. (Writings JOB.14.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hireling/#x3)
- As a servant that eagerly longeth for the shadow, and as a hireling that looketh for his wages; (Writings JOB.7.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hireling/#x4)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [And are not his days like the days of a hireling?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.151/)
- [As a servant that eagerly longeth for the shadow, and as a hireling that looketh for his wages;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.152/)
- [Look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.346/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hireling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hireling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.