Lexicon léstés: a robber Original Word: λῃστής, οῦ, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: léstés Phonetic Spelling: (lace-tace') Short Definition: a robber, brigand, bandit Definition: a robber, brigand, bandit. HELPS word-Studies 3027 lēstḗs – a thief ("robber"), stealing out in the open (typically with violence). 3027 /lēstḗs ("a bandit, briard") is a thief who also plunders and pillages – an unscrupulous marauder (malefactor), exploiting the vulnerable without hesitating to use violence. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom léis (booty) Definitiona robber NASB Translationrobber (5), robbers (6), robbers' (4).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3027: λῃστήςλῃστής, ληστου, ὁ (for ληιστής from ληίζομαι, to plunder, and this from Ionic and epic ληίς, for which the Attics use λεῖα, booty) (from Sophocles and Herodotus down), a robber; a plunderer, freebooter, brigand: Matthew 26:55; Mark 14:48; Luke 22:52; John 10:1; John 18:40; plural, Matthew 21:13; Matthew 27:38, 44; Mark 11:17; Mark 15:27; Luke 10:30, 36; Luke 19:46; John 10:8; 2 Corinthians 11:26. (Not to be confounded with κλέπτης thief, one who takes property by stealth (although the distinction is obscured in A. V.); cf. Trench, § xliv.)
Strong's robber, thief. From leizomai (to plunder); a brigand -- robber, thief. |
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