Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
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Thieves
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1 Corinthians 6:10
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
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λῃστής
lēistḗs · lace-tace'
8 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 21:13Strong's last: Luke 19:46
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kléptēs · klep'-tace
4 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 6:19Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 6:10
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gannâb · gaw-nab'
4 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
a stealer
Strong's KJV usage: thief.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 1:23Strong's last: Obadiah 1:5
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G2812
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
G2812
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
G3027
And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
G3027
Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
G3027
The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
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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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