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Koine Greek wordlink #20629

SR GNT Mat 27:38 λῃσταί (laʸstai) ‘with him two robbers one on the right’ Strongs=30270 Lemma=lēstēs
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=masculine number=plural
Year=33 AD

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Other uses (2) of identical word form λῃσταί (N-NMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘λῃσταί’ (N-NMP) is always and only glossed as ‘robbers’.

Yhn (Jhn) 10:8 ‘thieves are and robbers but not heard’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 10:8 word 10

OET-LV: 8 All as _much _as came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep not heard from _them. (JHN_10:8)

OET-RV: 8 The ones who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. (JHN 10:8)

Mat 27:44 ‘same also the robbers the ones having_been executed_on_a_stake_with with’ SR GNT Mat 27:44 word 7

OET-LV: 44 And the same also the robbers, the ones having _been _executed _on _a _stake _with with him, were _deriding him. (MAT_27:44)

OET-RV: 44 Even the robbers who were being executed beside him derided him. (MAT 27:44)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘lēstēs’ have 4 different glosses: ‘a robber’, ‘among robbers’, ‘of robbers’, ‘robbers’.

Greek words (7) other than λῃσταί (N-NMP) with a gloss related to ‘robbers’

MARK 11:17 λῃστῶν (laʸstōn) N-GMP ‘made it a hideout of robbers’ SR GNT Mark 11:17 word 27

OET-LV: 17 And he _was _teaching and was _saying to _them: Not has _it_˓been˒_written, that The house of _me will _be _being _called a_house of _prayer for _all the nations? But you _all made it a_hideout of _robbers. (MRK_11:17)

OET-RV: 17 He said, “Isn’t it written in the Scriptures,
⇔ ‘My house will be known as a house of prayer for all the nations’?
§ But all of you have turned it into a sanctuary for swindlers.” (MRK 11:17)

MARK 15:27 λῃστάς (laʸstas) N-AMP ‘him they are executing_on_a_stake two robbers one on the right’ SR GNT Mark 15:27 word 9

OET-LV: 27 And they _are _executing _on _a _stake two robbers with him, one on the_right and one on the_left of _him. (MRK_15:27)

OET-RV: 27 That morning, two thieves were also executed there—one on each side of Yeshua. (MRK 15:27)

MAT 21:13 λῃστῶν (laʸstōn) N-GMP ‘it are making a hideout of robbers’ SR GNT Mat 21:13 word 17

OET-LV: 13 And he _is _saying to _them: It _has _been _written: The house of _me will _be _being _called a_house of _prayer, but you _all are _making it a_hideout of _robbers. (MAT_21:13)

OET-RV: 13 telling them, “It was written that my house will be called a house of prayer, but you all are making it a hideout of robbers.” (MAT 21:13)

LUKE 10:30 λῃσταῖς (laʸstais) N-DMP ‘to Yeriⱪō/(Yərīḩō) and among robbers he fell_among who both’ SR GNT Luke 10:30 word 18

OET-LV: 30 the Yaʸsous having _replied said: A_ certain _man was _coming _down from Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim) to Yeriⱪō/(Yərīḩō), and he _fell _among among _robbers, who both having _stripped_ him _off, and having _inflicted wounds, they _went _away having _left him half _dead. (LUK_10:30)

OET-RV: 30 Yeshua replied with this: “Once a Jewish man was walking downhill from Yerushalem to Yericho when a group of robbers grabbed him and took everything including his clothes, then took off leaving him there wounded and half-dead. (LUK 10:30)

LUKE 10:36 λῃστάς (laʸstas) N-AMP ‘having fallen_in among the robbers’ SR GNT Luke 10:36 word 17

OET-LV: 36 Which of _these the three is _supposing to _you to _have _become a_neighbour, of _the one having _fallen _in among the robbers? (LUK_10:36)

OET-RV: 36 “So which of those three do you think acted like the neighbour of the one attacked by robbers?” (LUK 10:36)

LUKE 19:46 λῃστῶν (laʸstōn) N-GMP ‘it made a hideout of robbers’ SR GNT Luke 19:46 word 19

OET-LV: 46 saying to _them: It _has _been _written: The house of _me will _be a_house of _prayer, but you _all made it a_hideout of _robbers. (LUK_19:46)

OET-RV: 46 telling them, “It’s been written that ‘my house will be a place of prayer,’ but you’ve made it into a den for robbers.” (LUK 19:46)

2 COR 11:26 λῃστῶν (laʸstōn) N-GMP ‘in dangers of rivers in dangers of robbers in dangers from my race’ SR GNT 2 Cor 11:26 word 6

OET-LV: 26 in _journeys often, in _dangers of _rivers, in _dangers of _robbers, in _dangers from ^my_race, in _dangers from the_pagans, in _dangers in the_city, in _dangers in the_wilderness, in _dangers on the_sea, in _dangers among false _brothers, (CO2_11:26)

OET-RV: 26 I’ve done many long trips, crossed dangerous rivers, risked being robbed, was persecuted by my own people as well as by non-Jews, have been in danger in the city, in the wilderness and on the ocean, as well as being attacked by false teachers. (CO2 11:26)

Key: N=noun AMP=accusative,masculine,plural DMP=dative,masculine,plural GMP=genitive,masculine,plural NMP=nominative,masculine,plural