Learn biblical Greek vocabulary: κλέπτω “to steal”

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[00:00:00]The word for today is klepton. Again, it ends on a mega, so we know it's a verb and it means to steal.

[00:00:07]Only 13 times in the New Testament, so again, advanced Greek uh vocabulary.

[00:00:12]Let's uh see how this word is used in the book of Ephesians. So, ho klepton meketi klepteto. So, first of all, let's look at this word in the middle. It's an adverb, which means no longer.

[00:00:28]No longer. Now, let's work with our word.

[00:00:33]All right, so ho klepton. So, this is the participle and this is a substantive participle. So, when we have the participle with an article which have no other word to modify, it's called the substantive participle. It serves as a noun here. So, then we translate them with the help of the words the one who.

[00:00:55]The one who and the meaning of our word is to steal, so the one who steals or simply the thief. All right, so the one who steals, so this is nominative, so it's our subject. The one who steals no longer klepteto. And klepteto is another very interesting form of our verb. So, if we look at the ending, it's called the imperative, but imperative in the third person. So, third person singular imperative. In English, uh when we make commands, this is what imperative is all about. It's about the command. We only have imperatives in the second person, so we say you do this or don't do this, you know, come here, go there. But in Greek, besides the second person, we have the imperatives in the third person. So, when you command to someone to do something, not directly, but indirectly. And uh we translate it with the help of the word let. So, let somebody do something.

[00:01:59]You know, this this is the idea. Let the one who steals no longer steal.