Meaning
Hired servant, Hireling <1,,3411, misthotos>
an adjective denoting "hired," is used as a noun, signifying "one who is hired," "hired servants," Mar 1:20; "hireling," Joh 1:10-13; here, it expresses, not only one who has no real interest in his duty (that may or may not be present in its use in Mar 1:20, and in misthios, No. 2), but one who is unfaithful in the discharge of it; that sense attaches always to the word rendered "hireling."
<2,,3407, misthios>
an adjective, akin to No. 1, and similarly signifying "a hired servant," is used in Luk 15:17, Luk 15:19 (in some texts, Luk 15:21).
