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Koine Greek wordlink #3212

SR GNT Mat 6:19 κλέπται (kleptai) ‘is destroying and where thieves are digging_through and are stealing’ Strongs=28120 Lemma=kleptēs
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=masculine number=plural
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Sermon_on_the_Mount

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Other uses (3) of identical word form κλέπται (N-NMP) in the Greek originals

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

Yhn (Jhn) 10:8 ‘came before me thieves are and robbers’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 10:8 word 7

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 6:20 ‘is destroying and where thieves not are digging_through nor’ SR GNT Mat 6:20 word 17

OET-LV: 20 but be _storing _up for _you _all treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor corrosion is _destroying, and where thieves are_ not _digging _through nor are _stealing. (MAT_6:20)

OET-RV: 20 Instead, store your wealth in heaven, where there’s no destructive insects or corrosion or thieves or scammers, (MAT 6:20)

1 Cor 6:10 ‘nor thieves nor coveters not’ SR GNT 1 Cor 6:10 word 3

OET-LV: 10 nor thieves, nor coveters, not drunkards, not insulters, not swindlers, the_kingdom of_god will _be _inheriting. (CO1_6:10)

OET-RV: 10 or thieves or greedy, or drunkards or slanderers or swindlers, will inherit God’s kingdom. (CO1 6:10)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘kleptēs’ have 3 different glosses: ‘a thief’, ‘thief’, ‘thieves’.

Greek words (1) other than κλέπται (N-NMP) with a gloss related to ‘thieves’

1 TH 5:4 κλέπτας (kleptas) N-AMP ‘day you_all like thieves may grasp’ SR GNT 1 Th 5:4 word 15

OET-LV: 4 But you _all, brothers, not are in darkness, in _order _that the day you _all like thieves may _grasp. (TH1_5:4)

OET-RV: 4 but you, brothers and sisters, aren’t in darkness and likely to get surprised by a thief in the night (TH1 5:4)

Key: N=noun AMP=accusative,masculine,plural NMP=nominative,masculine,plural