Strong's #5057: telones (pronounced tel-o'-nace)

from 5056 and 5608; a tax-farmer, i.e. collector of public revenue:--publican.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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telōnēs

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.

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G5056 and G5608

Citing in TDNT: 8:88, 1166

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

Matthew 5:46: "not even the publicans the same?"
Matthew 5:47: "not even the publicans so?"
Matthew 9:10: "house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down"
Matthew 9:11: "your Master with publicans and sinners?"
Matthew 10:3: "and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and"
Matthew 11:19: "and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom"
Matthew 18:17: "as a heathen man and a publican."
Matthew 21:31: "unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before"
Matthew 21:32: "not; but the publicans and the harlots believed"
Mark 2:15: "his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with"
Mark 2:16: "him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his"
Mark 2:16: "and drinketh with publicans and sinners?"
Luke 3:12: "Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto"
Luke 5:27: "he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at"
Luke 5:29: "there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down"
Luke 5:30: "and drink with publicans and sinners?"
Luke 7:29: "that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the"
Luke 7:34: "and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!"
Luke 15:1: "drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear"
Luke 18:10: "and the other a publican."
Luke 18:11: "even as this publican."
Luke 18:13: "And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up"