גַּנָּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1590

thief — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

thief tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּנָּב: n.m. thief tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Ex 22:1 thief—גַּנָּב Ex 22:1 + 12 times; גַּנָּבִים Is 1:23 + 3 times—thief that breaks in Ex 22:1, 6, 7 (JE); by window Jo 2:9 (in simile); thief as one who steals Is 1:23 ψ 50:18 Pr 6:30; 29:24 Je 2:26; 48:27 Ho 7:1 (‖ גְּדוּד) Zc 5:4; coming by night Je 49:9 cf. Jb 24:14 (in simile), Ob 5 (‖ שׁוֹדֲדֵי לַיְלָה); Jb 30:5; stealer of men (slave-dealer) Dt 24:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: thief (8); a thief (3); thieves (3).

In the verses

Job 30:5 · tree →

מִן־גֵּ֥ו יְגֹרָ֑שׁוּ יָרִ֥יעוּ עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹ כַּגַּנָּֽב׃

Word for word: from [the].community they.are.driven.away people.shout on them like (the) thief

JPS 1917: They are driven forth from the midst of men; they cry after them as after a thief.

Proverbs 29:24 · tree →

חוֹלֵ֣ק עִם־גַּ֭נָּב שׂוֹנֵ֣א נַפְשׁ֑וֹ אָלָ֥ה יִ֝שְׁמַ֗ע וְלֹ֣א יַגִּֽיד׃

Word for word: [one.who].has.shares with a.thief [is].hating self his.own an.oath he.hears and not he.tells

JPS 1917: Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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