Who was the first Person specifically called a thief in the King James Version bible?

Answer 1

In the King James version

the word - thief - appears 28 times - but it is never directly associated with any person.

1. Exo 22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
2. Exo 22:7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
3. Exo 22:8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.
4. Deu 24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
5. Job 24:14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
6. Job 30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
7. Psa 50:18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
8. Pro 6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
9. Pro 29:24 Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
10. Jer 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.
11. Hos 7:1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
12. Joe 2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
13. Zec 5:4 I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
14. Mat 24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
15. Mat 26:55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
16. Mar 14:48 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?
17. Luk 12:33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
18. Luk 12:39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
19. Luk 22:52 Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
20. Joh 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
21. Joh 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
22. Joh 12:6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
23. 1 The 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
24. 1 The 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
25. 1 Pet 4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
26. 2 Pet 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
27. Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
28. Rev 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

the word - thieves - appears 16 times, again without direct association with people's names

1. Isa 1:23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
2. Jer 48:27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
3. Jer 49:9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
4. Oba 1:5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? If the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
5. Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
6. Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
7. Mat 21:13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
8. Mat 27:38 Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
9. Mat 27:44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
10. Mar 11:17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? But ye have made it a den of thieves.
11. Mar 15:27 And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.
12. Luk 10:30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
13. Luk 10:36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
14. Luk 19:46 Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
15. Joh 10:8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
16. 1 Cor 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

HOWEVER

The questioner might settle for Barabbas, who was called a 'robber' and is the only person so described.

1. Joh 18:40 Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.