Strong's #2812: kleptes (pronounced klep'-tace)

from 2813; a stealer (literally or figuratively):--thief. Compare 3027.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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kleptēs

1) an embezzler, pilferer

1a) the name is transferred to false teachers, who do not care to instruct men, but abuse their confidence for their own gain

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G2813

Citing in TDNT: 3:754, 441

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

Matthew 6:19: "rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:"
Matthew 6:20: "doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:"
Matthew 24:43: "in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and"
Luke 12:33: "the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither"
Luke 12:39: "what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and"
John 10:1: "climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber."
John 10:8: "before me are thieves and robbers: but the"
John 10:10: "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and"
John 12:6: "but because he was a thief, and had the bag,"
1 Corinthians 6:10: "Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,"
1 Thessalonians 5:2: "so cometh as a thief in the night."
1 Thessalonians 5:4: "should overtake you as a thief."
1 Peter 4:15: "suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or"
2 Peter 3:10: "of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which"
Revelation 3:3: "on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what"
Revelation 16:15: "Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth"