κλέπτω
to steal
‘to steal’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G2813 appears in the Future tense in the Book of Matthew. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
κλεπτω — transliterated kléptō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to steal.” It first appears in Matthew 6:19. With 11 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (45% of all occurrences). Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2813 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #863
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 863 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Gospels 8 verses · 73%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 27%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 9%
- Johannine 1 verse · 9%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Steal 10×, Do 2×, Stole 2×
- American Standard Version: Steal 9×, Do 2×, Stole 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Steal 4×, Do not steal 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Steal 7×, Do 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2813 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2813 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2813 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2813 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to commit a theft
- take away by theft i.e take away by stealth
Word origin
Origin: a primary verb
A primary verb; to filch : - steal.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms G2813 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κλέπτουσιν kléptousin | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 6:19 | 2 |
| κλέψεις klépseis | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular | Matthew 19:18 | 2 |
| κλέψῃς klépsēs | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular | Mark 10:19 | 2 |
| κλέπτειν kléptein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Romans 2:21 | 1 |
| κλέπτεις klépteis | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular | Romans 2:21 | 1 |
| κλέπτων kléptōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Ephesians 4:28 | 1 |
| κλέψωσιν klépsōsin | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 27:64 | 1 |
| κλέψῃ klépsē | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | John 10:10 | 1 |
| κλεπτέτω kleptétō | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular | Ephesians 4:28 | 1 |
| ἔκλεψαν éklepsan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 28:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2813, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
- καλυπτω kalýptō G2572 to hide
- κλεμμα klémma G2809 theft
- κλεπτης kléptēs G2812 embezzler
- κλοπη klopḗ G2829 theft
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κλεπτω appears 29 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 27 verses in 12 books.
- 29
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 27
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 30:33 κλέπτω
- Exodus 20:14 κλέπτω
- Leviticus 19:11 κλέπτω
- Deuteronomy 5:19 κλέπτω
- Joshua 7:11 κλέπτω
- 2 Samuel 19:42 κλέπτω
- 2 Kings 11:2 κλέπτω
- 2 Chronicles 22:11 κλέπτω
- Job 17:3 κλέπτω
- Proverbs 6:30 κλέπτω
- Jeremiah 7:9 κλέπτω
- Obadiah 1:5 κλέπτω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2813) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 30:33 κλέπτω So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Everyone that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."
- Genesis 31:19 κλέπτω Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.
- Genesis 31:30 κλέπτω Now, you want to be gone, because you sore longed after your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
- Genesis 31:32 κλέπτω With whoever you find your gods, he shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.
- Genesis 40:15 κλέπτω For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."
- Genesis 44:5 κλέπτω Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'"
- Genesis 44:8 κλέπτω Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
- Exodus 20:14 κλέπτω "You shall not commit adultery.
- Exodus 21:17 κλέπτω "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 21:37 κλέπτω
- Exodus 22:6 κλέπτω "If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
- Exodus 22:7 κλέπτω "If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.
- Exodus 22:11 κλέπτω the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
- Leviticus 19:11 κλέπτω "'You shall not steal; neither shall you deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
- Deuteronomy 5:19 κλέπτω "Neither shall you steal.
- Deuteronomy 24:7 κλέπτω If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Joshua 7:11 κλέπτω Israel has sinned; yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: yes, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also; and they have even put it among their own stuff.
- 2 Samuel 19:42 κλέπτω All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is a close relative to us: why then are you angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or has he given us any gift?
- 2 Samuel 21:12 κλέπτω David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
- 2 Kings 11:2 κλέπτω But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, [and put them] in the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;
- 2 Chronicles 22:11 κλέπτω But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn't kill him.
- Job 17:3 κλέπτω "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
- Proverbs 6:30 κλέπτω Men don't despise a thief, If he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:
- Proverbs 30:9 κλέπτω Lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' Or lest I be poor, and steal, And so dishonor the name of my God.
- Jeremiah 7:9 κλέπτω Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
- Jeremiah 23:30 κλέπτω Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.
- Obadiah 1:5 κλέπτω If thieves came to you, if robbers by night-- oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2813) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
