HIRE,
1. To procure from another person and for temporary use, at a certain price, or for a stipulated or reasonable equivalent as, to hire a farm for a year to hire a horse for a day to hire money at legal interest.
2. To engage in service for a stipulated reward to contract with for a compensation as, to hire a servant for a year to hire laborers by the day or month.
3. To bribe to engage in immoral or illegal service for a reward.
To hire out one's self, to let to engage one's service to another for a reward.
They have hired out themselves for bread. 1 Samuel 2
To hire, or to hire out, to let to lease to grant the temporary use of a thing for a compensation. He has hired out his house or his farm.
HIRE, n.
1. The price, reward or compensation paid or contracted to be given for the temporary use of any thing.
2. Wages the reward or recompense paid for personal service.
The laborer is worthy of his hire. Luke 10 .
The King James Bible has stood its ground for nearly 400 years. However, during that time the English language has changed, and with it the meanings of some words it used. Here are more than 6,500 words whose definitions have changed since 1611.Wikipedia
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