Thief
גַּנָּבStrong’s H1590gannav (gan-nav)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gannav is the Hebrew word usually translated “thief”, “like thief” and “thieves”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Thief
How it's translated
- the thief 6
- like thief 3
- a thief 3
- thieves 3
- among thieves 1
- and a thief 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Job 2
- Proverbs 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
11 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 22:2If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
- Exodus 22:7If 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.
- Exodus 22:8If 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.
- Deuteronomy 24:7If 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.
- Job 24:14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
- Job 30:5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
Hebrew dictionary
גַּנָּב gannav · thief
thief
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thief” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THIEF, noun
plural thieves.
- One who secretly, unlawfully and feloniously takes the goods or personal property of another.
- One who takes the property of another wrongfully, either secretly or by violence. Job 30:5
- One who seduces by false doctrine. John 10:1
- One who makes it his business to cheat and defraud; as a den of thieves.
All definitions
- An excrescence in the snuff of a candle.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.