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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Thief
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Revelation 16:15
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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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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Exodus
33 verses
Deuteronomy
11 verses
Job
22 verses
Psalms
11 verses
Proverbs
22 verses
Jeremiah
11 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Joel
11 verses
Zechariah
11 verses
Matthew
22 verses
Mark
11 verses
Luke
33 verses
John
33 verses
1 Thessalonians
22 verses
1 Peter
11 verses
2 Peter
11 verses
Revelation
22 verses
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גַּנָּב
gannâb · gaw-nab'
13 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
a stealer
Strong's KJV usage: thief.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 22:2Strong's last: Zechariah 5:4
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kléptēs · klep'-tace
12 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
a stealer (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--thief.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 24:43Strong's last: Revelation 16:15
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lēistḗs · lace-tace'
3 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
a brigand
Strong's KJV usage: :--robber, thief.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 26:55Strong's last: Luke 22:52
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G2812
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.
G2812
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.
G3027
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?
English meaning and historical usage.
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thief
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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