Forms of the word

Dictionary
τελώνης, -ου, ὁ
Greek transliteration
telōnēs
Simplified transliteration
telones

Numbers

Strong's number
5057
GK Number
5467

Statistics

Frequency in New Testament
21
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
n-1f
Gloss
tax collector
Definition
one who farms the public revenues;, in NT a publican, collector of imposts, revenue officer, tax gatherer, Mt. 5:46; 9:10, 11; 10:3; Mk. 2:15f.; Lk. 3:12

Greek-English Concordance for τελώνης

Matthew 5:46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax (telōnai | τελῶναι | nom pl masc) collectors do the same?
Matthew 9:10 And as Jesus sat at table in the house, many tax (telōnai | τελῶναι | nom pl masc) collectors and sinners came and were eating with Jesus and his disciples.
Matthew 9:11 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax (telōnōn | τελωνῶν | gen pl masc) collectors and sinners?”
Matthew 10:3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax (telōnēs | τελώνης | nom sg masc) collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
Matthew 11:19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax (telōnōn | τελωνῶν | gen pl masc) collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is shown to be right by what she does.”
Matthew 18:17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, you are to treat him as a pagan and a tax (telōnēs | τελώνης | nom sg masc) collector.
Matthew 21:31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, tax (telōnai | τελῶναι | nom pl masc) collectors and prostitutes will enter the kingdom of God before you!
Matthew 21:32 For John came to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but tax (telōnai | τελῶναι | nom pl masc) collectors and prostitutes did believe. And even when you saw it, you did not change your minds and believe him.
Mark 2:15 And as he reclined at table he in Levi’s house, Levi’s many tax (telōnai | τελῶναι | nom pl masc) collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, his for there were many who followed him.
Mark 2:16 And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax (telōnōn | τελωνῶν | gen pl masc) collectors, said to his disciples, his “Why is he eating with tax (telōnōn | τελωνῶν | gen pl masc) collectors and sinners?” is he eating
Luke 3:12 Tax (telōnai | τελῶναι | nom pl masc) collectors (telōnai | τελῶναι | nom pl masc) also came to be baptized and they said to him, “Teacher, what should we do?”
Luke 5:27 After this he went out and saw a tax (telōnēn | τελώνην | acc sg masc) collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.”
Luke 5:29 And Levi made a great banquet for him in his house, and there was a great crowd of tax (telōnōn | τελωνῶν | gen pl masc) collectors and others who were reclining at table with them.
Luke 5:30 And the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax (telōnōn | τελωνῶν | gen pl masc) collectors and sinners?”
Luke 7:29 When all the people including the tax (telōnai | τελῶναι | nom pl masc) collectors (telōnai | τελῶναι | nom pl masc) (those who had been baptized by John) heard this, they declared God just;
Luke 7:34 The Son of Man has come both eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax (telōnōn | τελωνῶν | gen pl masc) collectors and sinners!’
Luke 15:1 Now all the tax (telōnai | τελῶναι | nom pl masc) collectors (telōnai | τελῶναι | nom pl masc) and the sinners used to come near to listen to him.
Luke 18:10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a tax (telōnēs | τελώνης | nom sg masc) collector.
Luke 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed like this to himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of mankind — swindlers, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax (telōnēs | τελώνης | nom sg masc) collector.
Luke 18:13 The tax (telōnēs | τελώνης | nom sg masc) collector, however, standing at a distance, would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

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