'Thief' in the Bible

'If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he hath been smitten, and hath died, there is no blood for him;

'When a man doth give unto his neighbour silver, or vessels to keep, and it hath been stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he repayeth double.

'If the thief is not found, then the master of the house hath been brought near unto God, whether he hath not put forth his hand against the work of his neighbour;

'When a man is found stealing a person, of his brethren, of the sons of Israel, and hath tyrannized over him, and sold him, then hath that thief died, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),

If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers is thy portion.

They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,

Whoso is sharing with a thief is hating his own soul, Execration he heareth, and telleth not.

As the shame of a thief when he is found, So put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their kings, their heads, And their priests, and their prophets,

'When I give healing to Israel, Then revealed is the iniquity of Ephraim, And the wickedness of Samaria, For they have wrought falsehood, And a thief doth come in, Stript off hath a troop in the street,

In the city they run to and fro, On the wall they run, Into houses they go up by the windows, They go in as a thief.

I have brought it out -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts -- and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'

and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through;

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

'And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;

'Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;

The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.

for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;

for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;

and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

'Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.

lo, I do come as a thief; happy is he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --