G5057 – telones – τελώνης – publican
- Strong’s ID:
- G5057
- Greek Word:
- τελώνης
- Transliteration:
- telones
- Pronunciation:
- tel-o’-nace
- Part of Speech:
- noun masculine
- Usage Count:
- 22
- Search:
- Find “telones” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G5056 and G5608; a tax-farmer, i.e. collector of public revenue:—publican.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) a renter or farmer of taxes
1a) among the Romans, usually a man of equestrian rank
2) a tax gatherer, collector of taxes or tolls, one employed by a publican or farmer general in the collection of 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 did their job.
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.