18 occurrences

'Robbers' in the Bible

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn't Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.

My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.

As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.

"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?

He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"

He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"

Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?"

saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּזז 
Bazaz 
Usage: 43

גּזל 
Gazel 
Usage: 4

גּזלה 
G@zelah 
Usage: 6

פּריץ 
P@riyts 
Usage: 6

פּרק 
Pereq 
Usage: 2

צמּים 
Tsammiym 
Usage: 2

שׁוד שׁד 
Shod 
Usage: 25

שׁדד 
Shadad 
Usage: 57

שׁכּל שׁכּוּל 
Shakkuwl 
Usage: 7

ἁρπαγμός 
Harpagmos 
Usage: 1

ἱερόσυλος 
Hierosulos 
robber of the churches
Usage: 1

λῃστης 
Lestes 
Usage: 5