noun · masculine
architelōnos
Greekἀρχιτελώνης (architelōnēs)
Strong’sG754
head of a custom-house, chief tax-gatherer
stem architelōn-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
*† ἀρχι-τελώνης, -ου, ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G754 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | architelōnos1×ἀρχιτελώνης | architelōnois |
| object accusative | architelōnon | architelōnoin |
| direct address vocative | architelōnor | architelōnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | architelōnou | architelōnoiu |
| to, for dative | architelōno | architelōnoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
architelōno is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
architelōnos“chief tax collector”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 19:2“chief tax collector”kai idou anēros onome kalirōtos Zakchaios, kai autos ate architelōnos kai autos plousios;And there was a man named Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, who was very wealthy.