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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 14
    spellings

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

The word stands in eleven of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

גַּנָּהgannahgardenUses12

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.

    Exodus 22:2

    • 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.

    Exodus 22:7

    • 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.

    Exodus 22:8

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 24:7

    • 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.

    Job 24:14

    • כַגַּנָּֽב׃khaganavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the thief
  • They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,

    Job 30:5

    • 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.

    Psalms 50:18

    • גַ֭נָּבganonoun · masculine singulartagged: a thief

Proverbs

two uses
  • Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

    Proverbs 6:30

    • 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.

    Proverbs 29:24

    • 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.

    Isaiah 1:23

    • 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

    Jeremiah 2:26

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 48:27

    • 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?

    Jeremiah 49:9

    • 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.

    Hosea 7:1

    • 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.

    Joel 2:9

    • 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?

    Obadiah 1:5

    • 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.”

    Zechariah 5:4

    • הַגַּנָּ֔בhaganavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the thief

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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