sa.khir denotes a person employed for wages, including workers protected in law and figures used in comparisons about service and time.

The term consistently identifies a person employed for wages: legal passages place such a worker alongside servants and sojourners and address treatment, food, service, and pay, while Job and Isaiah use the worker's days or expectations as points of comparison.

1. A wage-employed person · dominant

   In Leviticus 19:13 the masculine singular form occurs in the prohibition against keeping a worker's wages overnight; in Deuteronomy 24:14 it identifies a poor and needy servant who must not be oppressed. The same singular form marks a person present for food and service arrangements in Exodus 12:45 and Leviticus 25:40, while Job 7:2 compares someone waiting for wages to such a worker. In Isaiah 16:14, the worker's years provide the comparison for a stated period.

   Leviticus 19:13Deuteronomy 24:14Exodus 12:45Leviticus 25:40Job 7:2Isaiah 16:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the person as a “hired worker,” “hired man,” or “hired servant”; in Job 7:2 it places the person in a comparison with waiting for wages. These renderings reflect whole clauses rather than a word-by-word alignment.