κλέπτης, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX for גַּנָּב;]
a thief: Mt 6:19, 2024:43, Lk 12:33, 39, Jo 10:1, 1012:6, I Co 6:10, I Pe 4:15. Fig., ὡς κ. ἐν νυκτί, I Th 5:2, 4 (κλέπτας, WH, txt., R, mg.; v. Lft., Notes, 73; but cf. also M, Th., l.c.), II Pe 3:10, Re 3:316:15. Metaph., of false teachers, Jo 10:8.†
SYN.: λῃστής, a robber, a brigand who plunders, openly, with violence; κ. is a thief who steals in secret, by fraud and cunning (Tr., Syn., § xliv).