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Lexicon :: Strong's H1589 - gānaḇ

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גָּנַב
Transliteration
gānaḇ
Pronunciation
gaw-nab'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 364

Strong’s Definitions

גָּנַב gânab, gaw-nab'; a primitive root; to thieve (literally or figuratively); by implication, to deceive:—carry away, × indeed, secretly bring, steal (away), get by stealth.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x

The KJV translates Strong's H1589 in the following manner: steal (30x), steal away (7x), carry away (1x), brought (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x
The KJV translates Strong's H1589 in the following manner: steal (30x), steal away (7x), carry away (1x), brought (1x).

  1. to steal, steal away, carry away

    1. (Qal) to steal

    2. (Niphal) to be stolen

    3. (Piel) to steal away

    4. (Pual) to be stolen away, be brought by stealth

    5. (Hithpael) to go by stealth, steal away

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גָּנַב gânab, gaw-nab'; a primitive root; to thieve (literally or figuratively); by implication, to deceive:—carry away, × indeed, secretly bring, steal (away), get by stealth.
STRONGS H1589: Abbreviations
† [גָּנַב] verb steal (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic גְּנַב, bdb017006; Arabic bdb017007 is hurt the side, or put aside, denominative from bdb017008 side) —
Qal Perfect 3rd person feminine singular suffix גְּנָבַתּוּ Job 21:18; Job 27:20, גְּנָבָ֫תַם Genesis 31:22; 2nd person masculine singular גָּנַבְתּ Genesis 31:30; 1st person singular וְגָנַ֑בְתִּי consecutive Proverbs 30:9; גָּנְָֽבוּ Joshua 7:11; 2 Samuel 21:12; suffix גְּנָבוּךָ 2 Samuel 19:42; Imperfect יִגְנָֹֽב־ Exodus 21:37, יִגְנוֺב Proverbs 6:30, וַיִּגְנֹב Genesis 31:20; 3rd person feminine singular וַתִּגְנֹב Genesis 31:19 + 2 times; 2nd person masculine singular תִּגְנֹב Exodus 20:15; Deuteronomy 5:17, וַתִּגְנֹב Genesis 31:26, 27, יִגְנְבוּ Obadiah 5, תִּגְנֹ֑בוּ Leviticus 19:11, נִגְנֹב Genesis 44:8; Infinitive absolute גָּנֹב Exodus 22:11 + 2 times; Participle גֹּנֵב Exodus 21:16 + 2 times, גָּנוּב Genesis 30:33; feminine construct גְּנֻֽֽֽבְתִי Genesis 31:39 (twice in verse); plural גְּנוּבִים Proverbs 9:17; in Hexateuch always J E D, except Leviticus 19:11 (H); — steal with accusative of thing Genesis 31:19, 30, 32; Genesis 44:8; Exodus 21:37; 2 Samuel 21:12 compare passive Genesis 30:33; Genesis 31:39; Proverbs 9:17; with object person Exodus 21:16; Deuteronomy 24:7; 2 Samuel 19:42; = take by stealth (for good purpose) 2 Kings 11:2 2 Chronicles 22:11; absolute Exodus 20:15 = Deuteronomy 5:17; Leviticus 19:11; Joshua 7:11; Proverbs 6:30; Proverbs 30:9; Obadiah 5; Zechariah 5:3, compareInfinitive absolute Hosea 4:2; Jeremiah 7:9 & (with Niph.) Exodus 22:11; גנב לֵב = deceive Genesis 31:20, 26 cf Di; אֹתִי ג׳ Genesis 31:27 id.; of sudden sweeping off by storm, in simile Job 21:18 figurative of destruction of wicked Job 27:20.
Niph. be stolen, subject of thing גָּנֹב יִגָּנֵב Exodus 22:11.
Pi. steal away (transitive) וַיְגַגֵּב אבשׁלום את־לֵב 2 Samuel 15:6; מְגַנְּבֵי דְּבָרַי Jeremiah 23:30.
Pu. be stolen away subject person גֻּנֹּב גֻּנַּבְתִּי Genesis 40:15; subject of thing וְגֻנַּב consecutive Exodus 22:6; be brought by stealth Job 4:12. יְגֻנָּ֑ב.
Hithp. go by stealth, steal away יִתְגַּנֵּב 2 Samuel 19:4, וַיִּתְגַּנֵּב 2 Samuel 19:4. (Syriac bdb017009 steal oneself away; so bdb017010 Genesis 31:27.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

30:33; 30:33; 31:19; 31:19; 31:20; 31:20; 31:22; 31:26; 31:26; 31:27; 31:27; 31:27; 31:30; 31:30; 31:32; 31:39; 31:39; 40:15; 44:8; 44:8

Exodus

20:15; 20:15; 21:16; 21:16; 22:6; 22:11; 22:11; 22:11

Leviticus

19:11; 19:11; 19:11

Deuteronomy

5:17; 5:17; 24:7

Joshua

7:11; 7:11

2 Samuel

15:6; 19:4; 19:4; 19:42; 19:42; 21:12; 21:12

2 Kings

11:2

2 Chronicles

22:11

Job

4:12; 21:18; 21:18; 27:20; 27:20

Proverbs

6:30; 6:30; 9:17; 9:17; 30:9; 30:9

Jeremiah

7:9; 23:30

Hosea

4:2

Obadiah

1:5; 1:5

Zechariah

5:3

H1589

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Strong's Number H1589 matches the Hebrew גָּנַב (gānaḇ),
which occurs 40 times in 36 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:33 - In the future, when you check on the animals you have given me as my wages, you’ll see that I have been honest. If you find in my flock any goats without speckles or spots, or any sheep that are not black, you will know that I have stolen them from you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - At the time they left, Laban was some distance away, shearing his sheep. Rachel stole her father’s household idols and took them with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, for they set out secretly and never told Laban they were leaving.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - “What do you mean by deceiving me like this?” Laban demanded. “How dare you drag my daughters away like prisoners of war?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:27 - Why did you slip away secretly? Why did you deceive me? And why didn’t you say you wanted to leave? I would have given you a farewell feast, with singing and music, accompanied by tambourines and harps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:30 - I can understand your feeling that you must go, and your intense longing for your father’s home. But why have you stolen my gods?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:32 - But as for your gods, see if you can find them, and let the person who has taken them die! And if you find anything else that belongs to you, identify it before all these relatives of ours, and I will give it back!” But Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the household idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:39 - If any were attacked and killed by wild animals, I never showed you the carcass and asked you to reduce the count of your flock. No, I took the loss myself! You made me pay for every stolen animal, whether it was taken in broad daylight or in the dark of night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:15 - For I was kidnapped from my homeland, the land of the Hebrews, and now I’m here in prison, but I did nothing to deserve it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - Didn’t we return the money we found in our sacks? We brought it back all the way from the land of Canaan. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:15 - “You must not steal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:16 - “Kidnappers must be put to death, whether they are caught in possession of their victims or have already sold them as slaves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 - [fn]“If someone steals an ox[fn] or sheep and then kills or sells it, the thief must pay back five oxen for each ox stolen, and four sheep for each sheep stolen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:7 - “Suppose someone leaves money or goods with a neighbor for safekeeping, and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house. If the thief is caught, the compensation is double the value of what was stolen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:12 - But if the animal was indeed stolen, the guilty person must pay compensation to the owner.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:11 - “Do not steal.
“Do not deceive or cheat one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:19 - “You must not steal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7 - “If anyone kidnaps a fellow Israelite and treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. In this way, you will purge the evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:11 - Israel has sinned and broken my covenant! They have stolen some of the things that I commanded must be set apart for me. And they have not only stolen them but have lied about it and hidden the things among their own belongings.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:6 - Absalom did this with everyone who came to the king for judgment, and so he stole the hearts of all the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:3 - They crept back into the town that day as though they were ashamed and had deserted in battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:41

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:41 - But all the men of Israel complained to the king, “The men of Judah stole the king and didn’t give us the honor of helping take you, your household, and all your men across the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:12 - he went to the people of Jabesh-gilead and retrieved the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan. (When the Philistines had killed Saul and Jonathan on Mount Gilboa, the people of Jabesh-gilead stole their bodies from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hung them.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:2 - But Ahaziah’s sister Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram,[fn] took Ahaziah’s infant son, Joash, and stole him away from among the rest of the king’s children, who were about to be killed. She put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, so the child was not murdered.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 22:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:11 - But Ahaziah’s sister Jehosheba,[fn] the daughter of King Jehoram, took Ahaziah’s infant son, Joash, and stole him away from among the rest of the king’s children, who were about to be killed. She put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom. In this way, Jehosheba, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid the child so that Athaliah could not murder him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:12 - “This truth was given to me in secret,
as though whispered in my ear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:18 - Are they driven before the wind like straw?
Are they carried away by the storm like chaff?
Not at all!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:20 - Terror overwhelms them like a flood,
and they are blown away in the storms of the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:30 - Excuses might be found for a thief
who steals because he is starving.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:17 - “Stolen water is refreshing;
food eaten in secret tastes the best!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:9 - For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the LORD?”
And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:9 - Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and burn incense to Baal and all those other new gods of yours,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:30 - “Therefore,” says the LORD, “I am against these prophets who steal messages from each other and claim they are from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2 - You make vows and break them;
you kill and steal and commit adultery.
There is violence everywhere—
one murder after another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:5 - “If thieves came at night and robbed you
(what a disaster awaits you!),
they would not take everything.
Those who harvest grapes
always leave a few for the poor.
But your enemies will wipe you out completely!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3 - Then he said to me, “This scroll contains the curse that is going out over the entire land. One side of the scroll says that those who steal will be banished from the land; the other side says that those who swear falsely will be banished from the land.
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