Strong's Number 5057

The Linked Word Project
Transliteration:
telones {tel-o'-nace}
Word Origin:
from 5056 and 5608
TDNT:
8:88,1166
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Usage in the KJV:
publican 22

Total: 22
Definition:
  1. a renter or farmer of taxes
    1. 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.
TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament