ganav · thief

What it means

ganav (גַּנָּב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thief”.

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. One who secretly takes what belongs to another.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• thief ×13
• thieves ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Hosea×1
• Joel×1
• Obadiah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 22:2

  If the thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there is no bloodguilt for him;

• 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 22:8

  If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to Elohim to declare that he has not put his hand to the goods of his neighbor.

• 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.

• Job 24:14

  With the light the murderer rises; he kills the poor and the needy, and in the night he is like the thief.

• Job 30:5

  From the midst they are driven out; they shout at them as at a thief.

• Psalms 50:18

  When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and with adulterers is your portion.

• Proverbs 6:30

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

• Proverbs 29:24

  Whoever shares with a thief hates his own soul; he hears the imprecation and does not declare anything.

• Isaiah 1:23

  Your princes are stubborn and companions of thieves; every one of them loves a bribe and chases after rewards. The orphan they do not judge the case of, and the cause of the widow does not come before them.

• Jeremiah 2:26

  As the shame of a thief when he is found, so the house of Israel is put to shame, they, their kings, their princes, and their priests and their prophets,

• Jeremiah 48:27

  And was not Israel the laughingstock for you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you speak of him you shake your head?

• Jeremiah 49:9

  If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, they would destroy only what was enough for them.

• Hosea 7:1

  When I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the evils of Samaria; for they practice falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the band of raiders raids outside.

• Joel 2:9

  On the city they rush, on the wall they run, into the houses they climb, through the windows they enter like the thief.

• 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 5:4

  I have sent it out, declares YHWH Tsevaot, and it will enter into the house of the thief and into the house of the one who swears by my name falsely; and it will lodge in the midst of his house and consume it, both its timber and its stones.”