ganav · steal

What it means

ganav (גָּנַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “steal”.

"Steal the heart" of someone is to deceive him.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To steal something, or kidnap someone.
2. To trick, or go secretly.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• stolen ×13
• steal ×10
• steals ×6
• stole ×5
• deceived ×2
• stealing ×2
• deceive ×1
• was brought stealthily ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×12
• Exodus×6
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×1
• 2 Samuel×5
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×3
• Proverbs×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Hosea×1
• Obadiah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 30:33

  So my righteousness will answer for me in time to come, when you come to look over my wages before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, or dark among the lambs, if it is with me, will be counted as stolen.”

• Genesis 31:19

  Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that belonged to her father.

• Genesis 31:20

  And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.

• Genesis 31:26

  Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of the sword.

• Genesis 31:27

  Why did you secretly flee, deceive me, and not tell me? I would have sent you away with joy and with songs, with tambourine and with lyre.

• Genesis 31:30

  Now you have indeed gone because you longed greatly for the house of your father; why did you steal my gods?”

• Genesis 31:32

  Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our brothers, recognize for yourself what of yours is with me and take it for yourself.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

• Genesis 31:39

  What was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it; from my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

• Genesis 40:15

  For I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews, and here too I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”

• Genesis 44:8

  Look, the silver that we found in the mouth of our bags we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal from the house of your lord silver or gold?

• Exodus 20:15

  You shall not steal.

• Exodus 21:16

  Whoever steals a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.

• Exodus 22:1

  When a man steals an ox or a lamb and slaughters it or sells it, he shall repay five cattle for the ox and four sheep for the lamb.

• Exodus 22:7

  When a man gives his neighbor silver or goods to keep, and it is stolen from the house of the man, if the thief is found, he shall repay double.

• Exodus 22:12

  But if it is actually stolen from him, he shall repay its owner.

• Leviticus 19:11

  You shall not steal, and you shall not lie, and you shall not deceive one another.

• Deuteronomy 5:19

  Nor shall you steal.

• Deuteronomy 24:7

  If a man is found stealing a person from his brothers, from the sons of Israel, and he treats him as a slave and sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.

• Joshua 7:11

  Israel has sinned; they have also transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have also taken from the things devoted to destruction; they have also stolen; they have also lied; and they have also put them among their own utensils.

• 2 Samuel 15:6

  Absalom did this way to all Israel who came for judgment to the king; and Absalom stole the heart of the men of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 19:3

  The people stole that day into the city, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

• 2 Samuel 19:41

  And there all the men of Israel were coming to the king, and they said to the king, “Why have our brothers, the men of Judah, stolen you and brought the king and his household across the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”

• 2 Samuel 21:12

  David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the lords of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day the Philistines struck Saul on Gilboa.

• 2 Kings 11:2

  But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, him and his nurse, and put them in the room of the beds; and they hid him from Athaliah, and he was not put to death.

• 2 Chronicles 22:11

  But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she put him and his nurse in the room of the beds. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Joram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest —for she was the sister of Ahaziah— hid him from Athaliah, and she did not put him to death.

• Job 4:12

  A word was brought stealthily to me, and my ear received a whisper of it.

• Job 21:18

  Are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the whirlwind steals away?

• Job 27:20

  Terrors overtake him like waters; by night the whirlwind steals him away.

• Proverbs 6:30

  People do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry;

• Proverbs 9:17

  “Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

• Proverbs 30:9

  lest I be satisfied and deny you and say, “Who is YHWH?” and lest I become poor and steal and profane the name of my Elohim.

• Jeremiah 7:9

  Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

• Jeremiah 23:30

  Therefore, look, I am against the prophets, declares YHWH, who steal my words each from his neighbor.

• Hosea 4:2

  Cursing, and lying, and murdering, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and bloodshed touches bloodshed.

• Obadiah 1:5

  If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night (how you have been destroyed!), would they not steal only what was enough for them? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?

• Zechariah 5:3

  And he said to me, “This is the imprecation that goes out over the face of all the land; for everyone who steals, from here, according to it, has gone unpunished; and everyone who swears, from here, according to it, has gone unpunished.

And 4 more times.