Aramaic

Alternative forms

• ܓܢܒ

Verb

גנב • ‎(transliteration needed)

1. to steal

Hebrew

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈnav/

Verb

גָּנַב • ‎(ganáv) ‎(pa'al construction, passive counterpart נִגְנַב)

1. (transitive) to steal
   • Genesis 31:19, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וְלָבָן הָלַךְ לִגְזֹז אֶת־צֹאנוֹ וַתִּגְנֹב רָחֵל אֶת־הַתְּרָפִים אֲשֶׁר לְאָבִיהָ׃‎

     v'laván halákh ligzóz 'et-tsonó vatignóv rakhél 'et-hat'rafím 'ashér l'avíha.
     wəlāḇān hālaḵ liḡzōz ʾeṯ-ṣōnō wattiḡnōḇ rāḥēl ʾeṯ-hattərāp̄īm ʾăšer ləʾāḇī́hā.

     Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

Conjugation

Noun

גַּנָּב • ‎(ganáv)

1. thief

Descendants

• Yiddish: גנבֿ ‎(ganef)

References

• “H1590”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

Anagrams

• נגב

Yiddish

Noun

גנב • ‎(ganef) m, plural גנבים ‎(ganovem)

1. (nonstandard) Unpointed form of גנבֿ ‎(ganef).