Strong's #3027: leistes (pronounced lace-tace')

from leizomai (to plunder); a brigand:--robber, thief.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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lēstēs

1) a robber, plunderer, freebooter, brigand

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from leizomai (to plunder)

Citing in TDNT: 4:257, 532

Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

 

Matthew 21:13: "have made it a den of thieves."
Matthew 26:55: "Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves"
Matthew 27:38: "Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on"
Matthew 27:44: "The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth."
Mark 11:17: "have made it a den of thieves."
Mark 14:48: "Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves"
Mark 15:27: "him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and"
Luke 10:30: "Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him"
Luke 10:36: "unto him that fell among the thieves?"
Luke 19:46: "have made it a den of thieves."
Luke 22:52: "Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?"
John 10:1: "the same is a thief and a robber."
John 10:8: "are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not"
John 18:40: "Now Barabbas was a robber."
2 Corinthians 11:26: "in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils"