κλέπτης
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom κλεπ-, the root of κλέπτω (kléptō, “I steal”), + -της (-tēs, masculine agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /klép.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈklep.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈklep.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈklep.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈklep.tis/
Noun
editκλέπτης • (kléptēs) m (genitive κλέπτου); first declension (Epic, Attic, Koine)
- thief
- New Testament, First Epistle to the Thessalonians 5:1–2:
- Περὶ δὲ τῶν χρόνων καὶ τῶν καιρῶν, ἀδελφοί, οὐ χρείαν ἔχετε ὑμῖν γράφεσθαι· αὐτοὶ γὰρ ἀκριβῶς οἴδατε ὅτι ἡ ἡμέρα Κυρίου ὡς κλέπτης ἐν νυκτὶ οὕτως ἔρχεται.
- Perì dè tôn khrónōn kaì tôn kairôn, adelphoí, ou khreían ékhete humîn gráphesthai; autoì gàr akribôs oídate hóti hē hēméra Kuríou hōs kléptēs en nuktì hoútōs érkhetai.
- About the times and seasons, brothers, you have no need that there be written to you: for you yourselves know exactly that the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.
- Περὶ δὲ τῶν χρόνων καὶ τῶν καιρῶν, ἀδελφοί, οὐ χρείαν ἔχετε ὑμῖν γράφεσθαι· αὐτοὶ γὰρ ἀκριβῶς οἴδατε ὅτι ἡ ἡμέρα Κυρίου ὡς κλέπτης ἐν νυκτὶ οὕτως ἔρχεται.
- deceitful person
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κλέπτης ho kléptēs |
τὼ κλέπτᾱ tṑ kléptā |
οἱ κλέπται hoi kléptai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κλέπτου toû kléptou |
τοῖν κλέπταιν toîn kléptain |
τῶν κλεπτῶν tôn kleptôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κλέπτῃ tôi kléptēi |
τοῖν κλέπταιν toîn kléptain |
τοῖς κλέπταις toîs kléptais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κλέπτην tòn kléptēn |
τὼ κλέπτᾱ tṑ kléptā |
τοὺς κλέπτᾱς toùs kléptās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κλέπτᾰ klépta |
κλέπτᾱ kléptā |
κλέπται kléptai | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
editDescendants
edit- English: klepton
References
edit- “κλέπτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κλέπτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κλέπτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κλέπτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- κλέπτης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2812 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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