lēistēs · bandit

What it means

lēistēs (λῃστής) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “bandit”.

Robber; also armed rebel.

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 robs by force, or an armed rebel.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

• robbers ×7
• bandits ×3
• robber ×3
• bandit ×2

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Mark×3
• Luke×4
• John×3
• 2 Corinthians×1

• Matthew 21:13

  And he says to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a den of robbers.”

• Matthew 26:55

  At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs, to arrest me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.

• Matthew 27:38

  Then two robbers are crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left.

• Matthew 27:44

  And in the same way the robbers who were crucified with him also were insulting him.

• Mark 11:17

  And he was teaching and saying to them, “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.”

• Mark 14:48

  And Jesus responded and said to them, “As against a robber have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me?

• Mark 15:27

  And with him they crucify two robbers, one on the right and one on his left.

• Luke 10:30

  And Jesus replied and said, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among bandits, who also stripped him and laid blows on him and went away, leaving him half dead.

• Luke 10:36

  Which of these three seems to you to have become a neighbor to the one who fell among the bandits?”

• Luke 19:46

  saying to them, “It is written, ‘And my house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.”

• Luke 22:52

  And Jesus said to those who had come against him, high priests and captains of the temple guard and elders, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

• John 10:1

  “Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold through the gate but climbs in another way, he is a thief and a bandit.

• John 10:8

  All who came before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep did not listen to them.

• John 18:40

  So they cried out again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a bandit.

• 2 Corinthians 11:26

  on journeys often, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own people, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;