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Koine Greek wordlink #135656

SR GNT 1 Th 5:4 κλέπτας (kleptas) ‘day you_all like thieves may grasp’ Strongs=28120 Lemma=kleptēs
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=masculine number=plural
Year=54 AD

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Only use of identical word form κλέπτας (N-AMP) in the Greek originals

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

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

Greek words (4) other than κλέπτας (N-AMP) with a gloss related to ‘thieves’

YHN 10:8 κλέπται (kleptai) N-NMP ‘came before me thieves are and robbers’ SR GNT Yhn 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 6:19 κλέπται (kleptai) N-NMP ‘is destroying and where thieves are digging_through and are stealing’ SR GNT Mat 6:19 word 16

OET-LV: 19 Be_ not _storing _up treasures on the earth for _you _all, where moth and corrosion is _destroying, and where thieves are _digging _through and are _stealing, (MAT_6:19)

OET-RV: 19 “Don’t amass wealth for yourselves here on earth, where insects and corrosion destroy things, and where it can be stolen. (MAT 6:19)

MAT 6:20 κλέπται (kleptai) N-NMP ‘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 κλέπται (kleptai) N-NMP ‘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)

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