τελώνης

From τέλος (télos, “tax”) +‎ ὠνέομαι (ōnéomai).

τελώνης • (telṓnēs) m (genitive τελώνου); first declension

1. a farmer or collector or the tolls, customs or taxes of a state, tax collector
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 248
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 119
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Herodas, Collected Works 6.64
   • 260 CE – 340 CE, Eusebius, Preparations for the Gospel 15.2
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 12.13.9
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 8.587
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 9.804
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 5:46

• τελώνης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τελώνης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τελώνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5057 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • collector idem, page 143.
  • customs idem, page 192.
  • excise-officer idem, page 289.
  • farmer idem, page 307.
  • publican idem, page 656.
  • tax-collector idem, page 857.
  • toll-collector idem, page 880.