'Thief' in the Bible
" 'If a thief is found in the act of breaking in and he is struck and he dies, there is not bloodguilt for him.
" 'If a man gives to his neighbor money or objects to watch over and it is stolen from the house of the man, if the thief is found, he will make double restitution.
If the thief is not found, the owner of the house will be brought {to the sanctuary} [to learn] whether or not he reached out his hand to his neighbor's possession.
{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief.
They were driven out from fellow people; they shout at them as [at] a thief,
When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him, and your association [is] with adulterers.
[People] do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry.
Being a partner with a thief is hating one's life; a curse he will hear, but not disclose.
As [the] shame of a thief when he is caught in the act, so the house of Israel will be ashamed. They, their kings, their officials, and their priests, and their prophets.
when I would heal Israel, and the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria; because they deal [in] falsehood, [the] thief breaks in, [and the] bandit raids the outside.
In the city they rush forth; on the walls they run. Into the houses they climb up; through the windows they enter like thief.
'I have sent it out,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing {falsely by my name}, and it will spend the night in that house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.'"