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Strong's G2813 κλέπτω (klepto)

Klepto means “steal” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2813 — chashabneyah (“Hashabniah”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2813
Language Greek
Linked Usages 41
Books 20

Strong's G2813 Quick Answer

Strong's G2813 κλέπτω (klepto) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. klepto (klep'-to) v. 1. to filch [a primary verb] It has 41 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include steal. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
klepto (klep'-to) v. 1. to filch [a primary verb]
Usage
41 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
steal

Meaning and Definition

klepto (klep'-to) v. 1. to filch [a primary verb] KJV: steal

Original Word
κλέπτω
Transliteration
klepto
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2813. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to steal

Usage: κλέπτω [in LXX for גָּנַב ;] to steal: absol., Mat.6:19-20 19:18, Mrk.10:19, Luk.18:20, Jhn.10:10, Rom.2:21 13:9, Eph.4:28; with accusative, Mat.27:64 28:13.† (AS)

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How Strong's G2813 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render klepto, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

steal Matthew 6:19 10×

How Strong's G2813 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 27 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2813 (κλέπτω) appears 32 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2813 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2813 in the New Testament

11 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 6:19 KJV

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Matthew 6:20 KJV

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Matthew 19:18 KJV

He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

Strong's G2813 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

27 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 30:33 Septuagint / Brenton

And my righteousness shall answer for me on the morrow, for it is my reward before thee: whatever shall not be spotted and speckled among the goats, and gray among the rams, shall be stolen with me.

Genesis 31:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father’s images.

Genesis 31:30 Septuagint / Brenton

Now then go on thy way, for thou hast earnestly desired to depart to the house of thy father; wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

Strong's G2813 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 4:23 Septuagint / Brenton

Yea, a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers;

1 Esdras 4:24 Septuagint / Brenton

and looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love.

Tobit 1:18 Septuagint / Brenton

And if the King Sennacherib had slain any, when he was come, and fled from Judea, I buried them privily; for in his wrath he killed many; but the bodies were not found, when they were sought for of the king.

Usage Excerpts

First 41 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2813.

Genesis 30:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And my righteousness shall answer for me on the morrow, for it is my reward before thee: whatever shall not be spotted and speckled among the goats, and gray among the rams, shall be stolen with me.
Genesis 31:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father’s images.
Genesis 31:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now then go on thy way, for thou hast earnestly desired to depart to the house of thy father; wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
Genesis 31:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob said, With whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, he shall not live in the presence of our brethren; take notice of what I have of thy property, and take it; and he observed nothing with him, but Jacob knew not that his wife Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis 40:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For surely I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here I have done nothing, but they have cast me into this pit.
Genesis 44:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Why have ye stolen my silver cup? is it not this out of which my lord drinks? and he divines augury with it; ye have accomplished evil in that which ye have done.
Genesis 44:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If we brought back to thee out of the land of Canaan the money which we found in our sacks, how should we steal silver or gold out of the house of thy lord?
Exodus 20:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not steal.
Exodus 21:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whosoever shall steal one of the children of Israel, and prevail over him and sell him, and he be found with him, let him certainly die.
Exodus 21:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if one steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall pay five calves for a calf, and four sheep for a sheep.
Exodus 22:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if anyone give to his neighbor money or goods to keep, and they be stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief be found, he shall repay double.
Exodus 22:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the thief be not found, the master of the house shall come forward before God, and shall swear that surely he has not wrought wickedly in regard of any part of his neighbor’s deposit,
Exodus 22:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if it be stolen from him, he shall make compensation to the owner.
Leviticus 19:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall not steal, ye shall not lie, neither shall one bear false witness as an informer against his neighbor.
Deuteronomy 5:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not steal.
Deuteronomy 24:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if a man should be caught stealing one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and having overcome him he should sell him, that thief shall die; so shalt thou remove that evil one from yourselves.
Joshua 7:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The people has sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them; they have stolen from the cursed thing, and put it into their store.
2 Kingdoms 19:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and caused the king and all his house to pass over Jordan, and all the men of David with him?
2 Kingdoms 21:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of the sons of Jabesh-gilead, who stole them from the street of Beth-shan; for the Philistines set them there in the day in which the Philistines smote Saul in Gilboa.
4 Kingdoms 11:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of her brother, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were put to death, secreting him and his nurse in the bedchamber, and hid him from the face of Athaliah, and he was not slain.
2 Chronicles 22:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and rescued him secretly out of the midst of the sons of the king that were put to death, and she placed him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram, sister of Ahaziah, wife of Jehoiada the priest, hid him, and she even hid him from Athaliah, and she did not slay him.
Job 17:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who is this? let him join hands with me.
Proverbs 6:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For he steals that when hungry he may satisfy his soul:
Proverbs 30:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? or be poor and steal, and swear vainly by the name of God.
Jeremiah 7:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and ye murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and are gone after strange gods whom ye know not,
Jeremiah 23:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I am therefore against the prophets, saith the Lord God, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.
Obadiah 1:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If thieves came in to thee, or robbers by night, where wouldest thou have been cast away? would they not have stolen just enough for themselves? and if grape-gatherers went in to thee, would they not leave a gleaning?
Matthew 6:19 New Testament, KJV
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Matthew 6:20 New Testament, KJV
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Matthew 19:18 New Testament, KJV
He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Matthew 27:64 New Testament, KJV
Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Matthew 28:13 New Testament, KJV
Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
Mark 10:19 New Testament, KJV
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
Luke 18:20 New Testament, KJV
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
John 10:10 New Testament, KJV
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Romans 2:21 New Testament, KJV
Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
Romans 13:9 New Testament, KJV
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Ephesians 4:28 New Testament, KJV
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
1 Esdras 4:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Yea, a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers;
1 Esdras 4:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love.
Tobit 1:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And if the King Sennacherib had slain any, when he was come, and fled from Judea, I buried them privily; for in his wrath he killed many; but the bodies were not found, when they were sought for of the king.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2813, grouped by book.

Genesis 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Obadiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 5 usages, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 2 usages, New Testament
Ephesians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2813 FAQ

What does klepto (κλέπτω) mean?

Klepto (Strong's G2813) is a Greek word most simply glossed "steal". klepto (klep'-to) v. 1. to filch [a primary verb]

How many times is klepto (κλέπτω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 41 linked usages for Strong's G2813 across 20 books.

Where can I study klepto (κλέπτω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2813 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate klepto (κλέπτω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as steal. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2813 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 27 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2813, with linked reader references where each row is available.