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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g5057 Greek: telones

Publican:

primarily denoted "a farmer of the tax" (from telos, "toll, custom, tax"), then, as in the NT, a subsequent subordinate of such, who collected taxes in some district, "a tax gatherer;" such were naturally hated intensely by the people; they are classed with "sinners," Mat 9:10, 11; 11:9; Mar 2:15, 16; Luk 5:30; 7:34; 15:1; with harlots, Mat 21:31, 32; with "the Gentile," Mat 18:17; some mss. have it in Mat 5:47, the best have ethnikoi, "Gentiles." See also Mat 5:46; 10:3; Luke 3:12; 5:27, 29; 7:29; 18:10, 11, 13.

Note: For architelones, "a chief publican," see CHIEF, B, No. 4.

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