sa.khar denotes engaging people or forces for payment, including soldiers, workers, and individuals.

The attested use consistently concerns engaging someone for payment or compensation: people secure soldiers for conflict, craftsmen for building work, or individuals for a requested service; passive and reflexive forms also depict persons being hired or hiring themselves out.

1. Engaging persons or forces for payment · dominant

   Qal forms describe obtaining people for a task or purpose: in 2 Samuel 10:6 the APB renders the Ammonites' securing Aramean forces as “hired,” and in 2 Chronicles 24:12 it renders the engagement of hewers and craftsmen for the house as “they hired.” The clause in Genesis 30:16 presents Leah's claim that she had engaged Jacob with mandrakes, while the Niphal perfect in 1 Samuel 2:5 depicts satisfied people who “hire themselves out.”

   2 Samuel 10:61 Chronicles 19:62 Chronicles 24:12Judges 18:4Genesis 30:161 Samuel 2:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the action with “hired” or “hire,” including troops, workers, and an individual; in 1 Samuel 2:5 it reads “hire themselves out.” These renderings confirm the clauses' overall presentation rather than assigning an English token mechanically to each form.