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Terms
72- WAGES.
- WAGON.
- WAIL,
- WALL OF PARTITION.
- WALLS.
- WANDERING IN THE WILDERNESS.
- WAR.
- WARD,
- WARDROBE,
- WARES.
- WASHING OF THE HANDS AND FEET, THE,
- WATCHES OF THE NIGHT.
- WATCHMAN.
- WATER OF JEALOUSY.
- WATER OF SEPARATION
- WATER,
- WATER-POT.
- WAVE-OFFERING,
- WAX,
- WEAN.
- WEAPONS.
- WEASEL,
- WEAVE.
- WEDDING-GARMENT.
- WEEK.
- WEEKS, FEAST OF.
- WEIGHTS.
- WELLS
- WHALE.
- WHEAT.
- WHITED
- WIDOW.
- WIFE.
- WILD BEASTS.
- WILDERNESS OF SIN.
- WILDERNESS,
- WILDERNESS, THE, OF THE WANDERING,
- WILL,
- WILLOW,
- WILLOWS, BROOK OF THE,
- WIMPLES,
- WIND.
- WINDOW,
- WINE-FAT, WINE-PRESS.
- WINE-VESSELS.
- WINE.
- WINNOW.
- WINTER
- WISDOM OF SOLOMON, THE BOOK OF,
- WISE MEN.
- WIST,
- WIT,
- WITCHCRAFT,
- WITHERED HAND.
- WITHS,
- WITNESS,
- WIZARD.
- WOE.
- WOLF
- WOMAN,
- WOOL,
- WORD
- WORD OF GOD.
- WORKS.
- WORLD.
- WORM.
- WORMWOOD.
- WORSHIP.
- WORSHIPPER,
- WOT, WOTTETH,
- WRESTLNG.
- WRITING
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WAGES.
Open directlyHastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
WA'GES. When wages are first mentioned in the O.T., they were paid, not in money, but in kind. Gen 29:15, Ruth 4:20; Gen 30:28; Gen 31:7-8, Gen 31:41. But the Law was very strict in requiring daily payment of wages, Lev 19:13; Deut 24:14-15, and employers who withhold the laborer's wages or refuse to give him sufficient victuals are strongly censured. Jer 22:13; Mal 3:5; Job 24:11. Wages paid in money are mentioned in the N.T. Matt 20:2; Luke 3:14; 1 Cor 9:7.