Lexicon telónés: Tax collector, publican Original Word: τελώνης Strong's Exhaustive Concordance tax collectorFrom telos and oneomai; a tax-farmer, i.e. Collector of public revenue -- publican. see GREEK telos see GREEK oneomai 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").] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom telos and óneomai Definition a farmer of taxes, i.e. a tax collector NASB Translation collector (1), tax collector (5), tax collectors (15). 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.; Forms and Transliterations τελωναι τελώναι τελῶναι τελωνην τελώνην τελωνης τελώνης τελωνων τελωνών τελωνῶν telonai telônai telōnai telō̂nai telonen telōnēn telṓnen telṓnēn telones telōnēs telṓnes telṓnēs telonon telonôn telōnōn telōnō̂nLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Matthew 5:46 N-NMPGRK: 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 Strong's Greek 5057 |
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