Greek noun (masculine) · G3027
λῃστής
leisteslace-tace'
robber/rebel
15 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lēistḗs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3027is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3027
a brigand
The King James renders it: robber, thief.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
leistes is rendered "robber/rebel". It stands 15 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 21:13And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
Matthew 21:13λῃστῶν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's fifteen uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- robbers6
- a robber4
- of robbers.’3
- an insurrectionist1
- of robbers1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- λῃστὴν3
- λῃστῶν3
- λῃσταί2
- λῃστάς2
- λῃσταὶ1
- λῃσταῖς1
- λῃστής1
- λῃστής.¶1
- λῃστῶν.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural4N-GPM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular3N-ASM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural3N-NPM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural2N-APM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2N-NSM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1N-DPM
Matthew
four uses
And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- λῃστῶνlestonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of robbers.’
At that time Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me.
- λῃστὴνlestennoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a robber
Two robbers were crucified with Him, one on His right hand and the other on His left.
- λῃσταίlestainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: robbers
In the same way, even the robbers who were crucified with Him berated Him.
- λῃσταὶlestainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: robbers
Mark
three uses
Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- λῃστῶν.¶lestonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of robbers.’
Jesus asked the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would an outlaw?
- λῃστὴνlestennoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a robber
Along with Jesus, they crucified two robbers, one on His right and one on His left.
- λῃστάςlestasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: robbers
Luke
four uses
Jesus took up this question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.
- λῃσταῖςlestaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: robbers
Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
- λῃστάςlestasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: robbers
He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- λῃστῶνlestonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of robbers.’
Then Jesus said to the chief priests, temple officers, and elders who had come for Him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as you would against an outlaw?
- λῃστὴνlestennoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a robber
John
three uses
“Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
- λῃστήςlestesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a robber
All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
- λῃσταίlestainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: robbers
“Not this man,” they shouted, “but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was an insurrectionist.)
- λῃστής.¶lestesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: an insurrectionist
2 Corinthians
one use
In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,
- λῃστῶνlestonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of robbers
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.