Definition

a wage-worker (good or bad)

Etymology

from G3409 (μισθόω);

Word family

• μισθόω misthóō

How the KJV renders it

• hired servant
• hireling

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.