κλέπτης

κλέπτης, -ου, ὁ

[in LXX for גַּנָּב ;]

a thief: Matt 6,19-20; 24,43, Luk 12,33, 39, Joh 10,1, 10; 12,6, 1 Kor 6,10, 1 Pet 4,15. Fig., ὡς κ. ἐν νυκτί, 1 Thess 5,2; 5,4 (κλέπτας, WH, txt., R, mg.; see Lft., Notes, 73; but cf. also M, Th., l.with), 2 Pet 3,10, Åb 3,3; 16,15. Metaphorical, of false teachers, Joh 10,8,†

SYN.: λῃστής, a robber, a brigand who plunders, openly, with violence; κ. is a thief who steals in secret, by fraud and cunning (Tr., Syn., § xliv)