Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1590
גַּנָּב
gannabgaw-nab'
thief
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gannâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1590is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1590
a stealer
The King James renders it: 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
gannab is rendered "thief". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 22:2If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
Exodus 22:2הַגַּנָּ֖ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the thief5
- a thief3
- like the thief3
- thieves3
- among thieves1
- and a thief1
- to the thief1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גַּנָּה | gannah | garden | Uses12 |
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 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
- הַגַּנָּ֖ב2
- הַגַּנָּ֔ב2
- כַּגַּנָּֽב׃2
- בְּגַנָּבִ֖ים1
- גַ֭נָּב1
- גַּ֭נָּב1
- גַּנָּב֙1
- גַּנָּבִ֔ים1
- גַּנָּבִ֥ים1
- גַּנָּבִ֤ים1
- הַגַּנָּ֣ב1
- וְגַנָּ֣ב1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular5HTd/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular4HRd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural3HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
Exodus
three uses
If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
- הַגַּנָּ֖בhaganavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the thief
If a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.
- הַגַּנָּ֖בhaganavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the thief
If the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges to determine whether he has taken his neighbor’s property.
- הַגַּנָּ֔בhaganavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the thief
Deuteronomy
one use
If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- הַגַּנָּ֣בhaganavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the thief
Job
two uses
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
- כַגַּנָּֽב׃khaganavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the thief
They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,
- כַּגַּנָּֽב׃kaganavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the thief
Psalms
one use
When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
- גַ֭נָּבganonoun · masculine singulartagged: a thief
Proverbs
two uses
Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.
- לַ֭גַּנָּבlaganopreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the thief
A partner to a thief hates his own soul; he receives the oath, but does not testify.
- גַּ֭נָּבganonoun · masculine singulartagged: a thief
Isaiah
one use
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
- גַּנָּבִ֔יםganavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: thieves
Jeremiah
three uses
As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
- גַּנָּב֙ganavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a thief
Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.
- בְּגַנָּבִ֖יםbeganavimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among thieves
If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?
- גַּנָּבִ֥יםganavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: thieves
Hosea
one use
When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.
- וְגַנָּ֣בveganavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a thief
Joel
one use
They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.
- כַּגַּנָּֽב׃kaganavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the thief
Obadiah
one use
“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
- גַּנָּבִ֤יםganavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: thieves
Zechariah
one use
I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”
- הַגַּנָּ֔בhaganavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the thief
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 family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
