telōnēs · tax collector

What it means

telōnēs (τελώνης) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “tax collector”.

Who collected taxes for Rome; despised by the people.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone who collected taxes, despised by all.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• tax collectors ×15
• tax collector ×6

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×8
• Mark×3
• Luke×10

• Matthew 5:46

  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

• Matthew 9:10

  And it happened, as he was reclining at table in the house, that look, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.

• Matthew 9:11

  And seeing this, the Pharisees were saying to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with the tax collectors and sinners?”

• Matthew 10:3

  Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus and Thaddaeus;

• Matthew 11:19

  The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a man who is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ And wisdom was declared righteous by her works.”

• Matthew 18:17

  And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if he refuses to listen even to the assembly, let him be to you as the Gentile and the tax collector.

• Matthew 21:31

  Which of the two did the will of his father?” They say, “The first.” Jesus says to them, “Truly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going ahead of you into the kingdom of God.

• Matthew 21:32

  For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him; and you, even when you saw it, did not even regret it afterward so as to believe him.

• Mark 2:15

  And it happens that he is reclining at table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many, and they were following him.

• Mark 2:16

  And the scribes of the Pharisees, seeing that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, were saying to his disciples, “Why does he eat with the tax collectors and sinners?”

• Luke 3:12

  And tax collectors also came to be immersed, and they said to him, “Teacher, what should we do?”

• Luke 5:27

  And after this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.”

• Luke 5:29

  And Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house; and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining at table with them.

• Luke 5:30

  And the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

• Luke 7:29

  And all the people when they heard, and the tax collectors, declared God righteous, having been immersed with the immersion of John;

• Luke 7:34

  The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a man who is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

• Luke 15:1

  Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming near to him to hear him.

• Luke 18:10

  “Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

• Luke 18:11

  The Pharisee, standing, was praying these things to himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: robbers, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

• Luke 18:13

  But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’

And 1 more times.