αὐτόφωρος, -ον

(αὐτός, φώρ, a thief) [in Sm.: Job.34:11 * ;]

prop. with ref. to theft, then generally, in the very act: as freq. neut. dative after ἐπί, Jhn.8:4 (Rec. ἐπαυτοφώρῳ).†

(AS)