גנב

• ܓܢܒ

גנב • (transliteration needed)

1. to steal

Compare Arabic جَنَّبَ (jannaba, “to put aside, keep away”)

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew, Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈnav/
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡɔˈnav/, /ˈɡɔnav/
• (Iraqi Hebrew, Syrian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈnab/
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /dʒɔˈnæv/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡɔˈnav/
• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡaːˈnab/, /ɡaːˈnaβ/, /ɡaːˈnav/

גָּנַב • (ganáv) third-singular masculine past (pa'al construction, passive counterpart נִגְנַב)

1. (transitive) to steal
   • Tanach, 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.

גַּנָּב • (ganáv) m [pattern: קַטָּל]

1. thief

• עַל רֹאשׁ הַגַּנָּב בּוֹעֵר הַכּוֹבַע (al rosh ha-ganáv bo'ér ha-kóva)

• → Yiddish: גנבֿ (ganef)
  • → Dutch: gannef
  • → English: ganef
  • → German: Ganove, Ganeff
  • → Lower Sorbian: ganowa

• H1590 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• נגב

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

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