* τελώνης, -ου, ὁ
(< τέλος, ὠνέομαι)
1. a farmer of taxes (Lat. publicanus).
2. A subordinate of the former, who collected taxes or tolls in a particular district, a tax-gatherer (EV,publican): Mt 5:4610:3, Lk 3:125:27, 297:2918:10, 11, 13; pl., τ. κ. ἁμαρτωλοί, Mt 9:10, 1111:19, Mk 2:15, 16, Lk 5:307:3415:1; τ. κ. πόρναι, Mt 21:31, 32; ὁ ἐθνικὸς κ. ὁ τ., Mt 18:17 (cf. DB, iv, 172; ext., 394 f.; MM, xxiv).†