Strong's Concordance telónés: tax collector Original Word: τελώνης, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: telónés Phonetic Spelling: (tel-o'-nace) Short Definition: a collector of taxes Definition: a publican, collector of taxes. HELPS Word-studies 5057 telṓnēs – a publican; a tax-collector, gathering public taxes from the Jews for the Romans. [5057 /telṓnēs (literally, "paying-at-the-end") referred to the toll-house where the Romans collected taxes from the public. "Publican/tax-gatherer" (5057 /telṓnēs) is derived from telos ("a tax at the end") and ōneomai ("to buy").] Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5057: τελώνηςτελώνης, τελωνου, ὁ (from τέλος ((which see 2)) tax, and ὠνέομαι to buy; cf. δημοσιώνης, ὀψώνης, δεκατωνης), from Aristophanes, Aeschines, Aristotle, Polybius down; 1. a renter or farmer of taxes (Latinpublicanus); among the Romans usually a man of equestrian rank. 2. a tax-gatherer, collector of taxes or tolls (Vulg.publicanus incorrectly: (so A. V. publican)), one employed by a publican or farmer-general in collecting the taxes. The tax-collectors were, as a class, detested not only by the Jews but by other nations also, both on account of their employment and of the harshness, greed, and deception, with which they prosecuted it; (hence, they are classed by Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 1, 23; 4, 57, with καπηλοις καί τοῖς μετά ἀναιδειας ζῶσι καί λῃσταῖς καί ζυγοκρουσταις καί παραλογισταις ἀνθρώποις; Lucian, necyom. c. 11 puts together μοιχοί, πορνοβοσκοι καί τελῶναι καί κολακες καί συκοφανται (Theophrastus, charact. 6 (περί ἀπονοίας) πανδοχευσαι, καί πορνοβοσκησαι, καί τελωνησαι)): Matthew 5:46, 47 Rec.; From telos and oneomai; a tax-farmer, i.e. Collector of public revenue -- publican. see GREEK telos see GREEK oneomai Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 505721 Occurrences τελῶναι — 8 Occ. τελώνην — 1 Occ. τελώνης — 5 Occ. τελωνῶν — 7 Occ. Matthew 5:46 N-NMP GRK: καὶ οἱ τελῶναι τὸ αὐτὸ NAS: Do not even the tax collectors do KJV: not even the publicans the same? INT: also the tax gatherers the same Matthew 9:10 N-NMP Matthew 9:11 N-GMP Matthew 10:3 N-NMS Matthew 11:19 N-GMP Matthew 18:17 N-NMS Matthew 21:31 N-NMP Matthew 21:32 N-NMP Mark 2:15 N-NMP Mark 2:16 N-GMP Mark 2:16 N-GMP Luke 3:12 N-NMP Luke 5:27 N-AMS Luke 5:29 N-GMP Luke 5:30 N-GMP Luke 7:29 N-NMP Luke 7:34 N-GMP Luke 15:1 N-NMP Luke 18:10 N-NMS Luke 18:11 N-NMS Luke 18:13 N-NMS |
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