Hire, Hireling
Hire, Hireling
HIRE, HIRELING.The former is used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] alongside of its synonym wages, by which it has been supplanted in mod. English as in Gen 31:8 RV [Note: Revised Version.] (cf. Gen 30:18; Gen 30:32 f. with Gen 29:15, Gen 30:28 etc.). A hireling is a person hired to work for a stipulated wage, such as a field-labourer (Mal 3:5), shepherd (Joh 10:12 f.), or mercenary soldier (Isa 16:14, cf. Jer 46:21). No imputation of unfaithfulness or dishonesty is necessarily conveyed by the term, although these ideas have now become associated with it owing to our Lords application of the word to an unfaithful shepherd in Joh 10:12-13.
A. R. S. Kennedy.