Exodus 22:2
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
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If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
Read in context →Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
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gannâb · gaw-nab'
a stealer
Strong's KJV usage: thief.
Strong's first: Exodus 22:2Strong's last: Zechariah 5:4
Open full H1590 profile →kléptēs · klep'-tace
a stealer (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--thief.
Strong's first: Matthew 24:43Strong's last: Revelation 16:15
Open full G2812 profile →lēistḗs · lace-tace'
a brigand
Strong's KJV usage: :--robber, thief.
Strong's first: Matthew 26:55Strong's last: Luke 22:52
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If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.
If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
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THIEF, noun plural thieves.
1. One who secretly, unlawfully and feloniously takes the goods or personal property of another. The thief takes the property of another privately; the robber by open force.
2. One who takes the property of another wrongfully, either secretly or by violence. Job 30:5.
3. One who seduces by false doctrine. John 10:1.
4. One who makes it his business to cheat and defraud; as a den of thieves. Matthew 21:1.
5. An excrescence in the snuff of a candle.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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