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# 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1590/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּנָּב: n.m. thief [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1590/#m2)

**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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.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

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1590.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1590/): 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).