theft : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: theft	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for theft
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
theft n the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" Synonym(s): larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Theft \Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [ed]i[82]f[eb]e, [ed][df]f[eb]e, [ed]e[a2]f[eb]e. See {Thief}.] 1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny. Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See {Larceny}, and the Note under {Robbery}. 2. The thing stolen. [R.] If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, . . . he shall restore double. --Ex. xxii. 4.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Theft Punished by restitution, the proportions of which are noted in 2 Sam. 12:6. If the thief could not pay the fine, he was to be sold to a Hebrew master till he could pay (Ex. 22:1-4). A night-thief might be smitten till he died, and there would be no blood-guiltiness for him (22:2). A man-stealer was to be put to death (21:16). All theft is forbidden (Ex. 20:15; 21:16; Lev. 19:11; Deut. 5:19; 24:7; Ps. 50:18; Zech. 5:3; Matt. 19:18; Rom. 13:9; Eph. 4:28; 1 Pet. 4:15).