Sense

1. a band of robbers, a retreat or nest of robbers
2. robbery

Examples

• ΚΑΙ ἐβασίλευσαν οἱ κατοικοῦντεσ ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ τὸν Ὀχοζίαν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν μικρὸν ἀντ’ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι πάντασ τοὺσ πρεσβυτέρουσ ἀπέκτεινε τὸ ἐπελθὸν ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ λῃστήριον, οἱ Ἄραβεσ καὶ οἱ Ἀλιμοζονεῖσ. καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν Ὀχοζίασ υἱὸσ Ἰωρὰμ βασιλέωσ Ἰούδα. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 22:1)
• β καὶ ἀπέστειλε Κύριοσ ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ τοὺσ Χαλδαίουσ καὶ λῃστήρια Σύρων καὶ λῃστήρια Μωαβιτῶν καὶ υἱῶν Ἀμμὼν καὶ τῆσ Σαμαρείασ, καὶ ἀπέστησαν μετὰ τὸν λόγον τοῦτον κατὰ τὸν λόγον Κυρίου ἐν χειρὶ τῶν παίδων αὐτοῦ τῶν προφητῶν. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 36:11)
• καὶ μὴν οὐχ ὁρῶ ὅ τι τὸ ἀγαθὸν αὐτῷ πρόσεστιν, εἰ μὴ ἄρα ἕν τι μόνον, ὅτι βαρύνονται οἱ φέροντεσ αὐτό, οὐ γὰρ οἶσθα ὅσοι πόλεμοι διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἐπιβουλαὶ καὶ λῃστήρια καὶ ἐπιορκίαι καὶ φόνοι καὶ δεσμὰ ^ καὶ ἐμπορίαι καὶ δουλεῖαι; (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 11:6)
• ἄγγελοι δὲ καὶ ὑπηρέται αὐτοῦ μάλα πολλοί, ὡσ ὁρᾷσ, ἠπίαλοι καὶ πυρετοὶ καὶ φθόαι καὶ περιπλευμονίαι καὶ ξίφη καὶ λῃστήρια καὶ κώνεια καὶ δικασταὶ καὶ τύραννοι· (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 17:2)
• πρεσβευτὰσ γὰρ αὐτοῦ λῃστήριον Νομαδικὸν ἐκφυγόντασ ὑποδεξάμενοσ καὶ φιλοφρονηθείσ, δῶρα καὶ πομπὴν ἀσφαλῆ παρασχὼν ἀπέστειλεν. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 3 1:3)
• τῶν ἑταίρων τινὲσ τοῦ Τατίου λῃστήριον ἐξαγαγόντεσ εἰσ τὴν Λαουινιατῶν χώραν χρήματά τε αὐτῶν ἡρ́πασαν πολλὰ καὶ βοσκημάτων ἀπήλασαν ἀγέλασ, τῶν δ’ ἐπιβοηθούντων οὓσ μὲν ἀπέκτειναν, οὓσ δ’ ἐτραυμάτισαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 51 2:1)
• Καῖσαρ δὲ γνοὺσ ἀντεπέστελλεν ἐξαιρεθῆναι τὸ λῃστήριον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 567:4)
• φασὶ δὲ τὸν παράπλουν τοῦ Κωρύκου πάντα λῃστήριον ὑπάρξαι τῶν Κωρυκαίων καλουμένων, εὑρομένων τρόπον καινὸν τῆσ ἐπιβουλῆσ τῶν πλοϊζομένων· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 57:3)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.