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- Goniff (GAH-niv) is Hebrew and Yiddish for “thief,” and has come to refer to anyone who is a swindler, a cheat or just plain dishonest.
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HEB: אִם־ רָאִ֣יתָ גַ֭נָּב וַתִּ֣רֶץ עִמּ֑וֹ. NAS: you see a thief, you are pleased. KJV: When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst. INT: When see A thief are pleased with. Proverbs 6:30. HEB: לֹא־ יָב֣וּזוּ לַ֭גַּנָּב כִּ֣י יִגְנ֑וֹב. NAS: Men do not despise a thief if.
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Goniff (GAH-niv) is Hebrew and Yiddish for “thief,” and has come to refer to anyone who is a swindler, a cheat or just plain dishonest. In Yiddish parlance a theft is called a geneivah (a loanword from Hebrew), but the act of stealing is to ganveh, a formulation that imposes Germanic syntax onto the original Hebrew word.
Modern Hebrew-English Dictionary, Online Translation, Grammar of the Hebrew language, Literature
A primitive root; to thieve (literally or figuratively); by implication, to deceive -- carry away, X indeed, secretly bring, steal (away), get by stealth.
Translation of "thief" into Hebrew . גנב, גַּנָּב are the top translations of "thief" into Hebrew. Sample translated sentence: Once a thief, always a thief. ↔ פעם גנב, תמיד גנב.
“Goniff” is Hebrew and Yiddish for “thief,” and has come to refer to anyone who is a swindler, a cheat or just plain dishonest.
Discover the meaning of Thief in the Bible. Study the definition of Thief with multiple Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias and find scripture references in the Old and New Testaments.