STRONGS G3027:
λῃστής,
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.)
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