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Notes: μίσθιος and μισθωτός involve two sets of components, one focusing upon the work which such a person does and the other upon the fact that the individual in question is paid. This means that μίσθιος and μισθωτός could justifiably be classified either in Domain 42 Perform, Do or in Domain 57.

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: μίσθιος; -ου

Related lemmas: μισθόομαι

Sense 1: hired worker, hired person

Semantic entry: 57.174

Semantic domains: Possess, Transfer, Exchange

Subdomains: Hire, Rent Out

Definition: (derivative of μισθόομαι ‘to hire,’ 57.172: μισθόω) a person who has been hired to perform a particular service or work{N:001}

Show passage in OET: LUK 15:17

OET-RV LUK 15:17

17 But he eventually came to his senses and said to himself, ‘Even my father’s workers have plenty of food, but here I am in this place dying of starvation.

OET-LV LUK 15:17

17 To but himself having _come he _was _saying:
How _many hired ones of _the father of _me are _being _plentiful of _bread, but I am _perishing with _famine here?

Show passage in OET: LUK 15:19

OET-RV LUK 15:19

19 and I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. Take me on as one of your workers.” ’

OET-LV LUK 15:19

19 I _am no _longer worthy to _be _called the_son of _you.
Make me as one of _the hired ones of _you.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

μίσθιος

Form 1

Sense 1: hired worker, hired person