שכר

See also: שׂכר

Hebrew

Etymology 1

Root
שׂ־כ־ר (s-k-r)

Verb

שָׂכַר • (sakhár) (pa'al construction, passive counterpart נִשְׂכַּר)

1. to hire, rent

Further reading

• H7936 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Noun

שָׂכָר • (sakhár) m (singular construct שְׂכַר־)

1. wage, salary

   שכר המינימום ― s'khár-hamínimum ― the minimum wage

2. payment
3. reward
4. fee

   שכר דירה ― s'khár-dirá ― rent (literally apartment fee)

   שכר לימוד ― s'khár-limúd ― tuition (literally study fee)

Synonyms

• פְּרָס (3)

Descendants

• Yiddish: שׂכר (skhar)

Noun

שֶׂכֶר • (sékher) m [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. charter plane, boat, bus, etc.

Etymology 2

Root
שׁ־כ־ר (sh-k-r)

From Proto-Semitic *šikar- (“alcoholic drink”). Compare Arabic سَكِرَ (sakira, “to get drunk, to become intoxicated”) and سَكَر (sakar, “intoxicant, wine”).

Verb

שָׁכַר • (shakhár) (pa'al construction)

1. to be or become drunk

Noun

שֵׁכָר • (shekhár) m

1. liquor, intoxicating drink
   • 13th century, anonymous poet, quoted in Yehuda Alharizi, Sefer Tahkemoni:

     לו שר בנו־עמרם פני דודי מתאדמים העת שתות שכר,
     ויפי קצותיו והוד יופיו, לא חק בתורתו: ואת זכר.

     Had the son of Amram seen the face of my beloved reddened from the foolishness of liquor,
     and the beauty of his extremities and the majesty of his beauty, he would not have written in his Torah: "and with a man [do not lie]".

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: σίκερα (síkera)
  • → Latin: sīcera
    • → Middle English: ciser, siser, cisar, seser, cyser, sicer, syser, cisere
      • → English: cyser
    • Old French: cisdre, sidre
      • → Breton: sistr
      • French: cidre
        • → German: Cidre
        • → Polish: cydr
        • → Romanian: cidru
        • → Russian: сидр (sidr)
        • → Ukrainian: сидр (sydr)
      • → Middle Dutch: sider
        • Dutch: cider
      • → Middle English: sider, sedyr, cedyr, sydyr, cidre, sidre, syder, sydur, siþer, sythere, sydir, sidur, sithir, cyther, cyder
        • English: cider
          • → Bulgarian: са́йдер (sájder)
          • → Finnish: siideri
          • → Jersey Dutch: sâiter
          • → Japanese: サイダー (saidā)
          • → Korean: 사이다 (saida)
        • Scots: cedar (obsolete)
        • → Welsh: seidr
      • → Galician: sidra
      • → Spanish: sidra
        • → Catalan: sidra
        • → Tagalog: sidra
      • → Italian: sidro.

References

• H7941 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Verb

שִׁכֵּר • (shikér) (pi'el construction)

1. defective spelling of שיכר

References

• H7937 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• H7941 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible