Topic
Robber; Robbery
10 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 5:5ISBE
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
- Job 18:9ISBE
The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
- Psalms 62:10ISBE
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
- Proverbs 21:7ISBE
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
- Daniel 11:14ISBE
And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.
- Jonah 4:5ISBE
So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
- Nahum 3:1ISBE
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
- Philippians 2:6ISBE
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
- Philippians 2:10ISBE
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
- Philippians 2:11ISBE
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 10 references
rob'-er, rob'-er-i: "Robber" represents no particular Hebrew word in the Old Testament, but in the Apocrypha and the New Testament is always a translation of lestes (see THIEF). In the King James Version Job 5:5; 18:9, "robber" stands for the doubtful word tsammim, the Revised Version (British and American) "hungry" in JOb 5:5 and "snare" in 18:9. The meaning is uncertain, and perhaps tseme'im, "thirsty," should be read in both places. Ps 62:10, "Become not vain in robbery," means "put not your trust in riches dishonestly gained." RV's changes of the King James Version in Pr 21:7; Da 11:14; Na 3:1 are obvious. In Php 2:6 the King James Version reads "thought it not robbery to be equal with God." the English Revised Version has "a prize," while the English Revised Version margin and the American Standard Revised Version read "a thing to be grasped," the American Standard Revised Version rewording "counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped." The Greek here is harpagmos, a word derived from harpazo, "to ravish away," "carry off," "plunder" (compare "harpy"). Properly speaking, the termination -mos should give the derived noun an active sense, "the act of plundering," whence the King James Version's "robbery." The verse would then mean "who thought that being on an equality with God did not consist in grasping," and this translation gives good sense in the context and has some excellent scholarly support. But a passive significance is frequently found despite a -mos termination, giving to harpagmos the sense of "thing grasped," as in the Revised Version (British and American). Usually English commentators take "grasped" as meaning "clung to"--"did not think equality with God should be clung to tenaciously"--but "to cling to" seems unknown as a translation of harpazo. Hence, render "a thing to be grasped at"--did not seek equality with God by selfish methods but by humbling himself." It is to be noticed, naturally, that Paul is thinking of "equality with God" simply in the sense of "receiving explicit adoration from men" (Php 2:10,11), and that the metaphysical relation of the Son to the Father is not at all in point.
See also GRASP.
Burton Scott Easton
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.