Noun lēstēs (bandit) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

21: 13He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer'; but you are making it a den of bandits (lēstēs)."
26: 55At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as though I were a bandit (lēstēs)? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not arrest me.
27: 38Then two bandits (lēstēs) were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.
27: 44The bandits (lēstēs) who were crucified with him also taunted him in the same way.

Mark

11: 17He was teaching and saying, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of bandits (lēstēs)."
14: 48Then Jesus said to them, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as though I were a bandit (lēstēs)?
15: 27And with him they crucified two bandits (lēstēs), one on his right and one on his left.

Luke

10: 30Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of bandits (lēstēs), who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.
10: 36Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the bandits (lēstēs)?"
19: 46and he said, "It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer'; but you have made it a den of bandits (lēstēs)."
22: 52Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple police, and the elders who had come for him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as if I were a bandit (lēstēs)?

John

10: 1"Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit (lēstēs).
10: 8All who came before me are thieves and bandits (lēstēs); but the sheep did not listen to them.
18: 40They shouted in reply, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a bandit (lēstēs).

2 Corinthians

11: 26on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from bandits (lēstēs), danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers and sisters;

Jeremiah (LXX)

7: 11Is my house, whereon my name is called, a den of bandits (lēstēs) in your eyes? And, behold, I have seen it, saith the Lord.
18: 22Let there be a cry in their houses: thou shalt bring upon them bandits (lēstēs) suddenly: for they have formed a plan to take me, and have hidden snares for me.

Ezekiel (LXX)

22: 9There are bandits (lēstēs) in thee, to shed blood in thee; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of thee.

Hosea (LXX)

7: 1When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, even a bandit (lēstēs) spoiling in his way;

Obadiah (LXX)

1: 5If thieves came in to thee, or bandits (lēstēs) 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?

Letter of Jeremiah (LXX)

1: 13He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an axe: but cannot deliver himself from war and bandits (lēstēs).
1: 17And as the doors are made sure on every side upon him that offendeth the king, as being committed to suffer death: even so the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest their gods be spoiled with bandits (lēstēs).
1: 57Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or gold, able to escape either from thieves or bandits (lēstēs). Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong take, and go away withal: neither are they able to help themselves.

Sirah (LXX)

36: 26Who will trust a bandit (lēstēs) well appointed, that skippeth from city to city?