noun · masculine
kollubistos
Strong’sG2855
a money-changer
stem kollubist-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† κολλυβιστής, -οῦ, ὁ
(< κόλλυβος, a small coin, a rate of exchange),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2855 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkol-loo-bis-tace'
probably akin to G2854); a coin-dealer
Fromfrom a presumed derivative of κόλλυβος (a small coin;
King James(money-)changer.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
small money-changer, NT+5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kollubistos | kollubistois |
| object accusative | kollubiston | kollubistoin |
| direct address vocative | kollubistor | kollubistoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kollubistou | kollubistoiu3×κολλυβιστῶν |
| to, for dative | kollubisto | kollubistoi |
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
kollubisto 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
kollubistoiu“money changers”of, belonging togenitive plural3×
Matthew 21:12… te hiere kai tain trapezain toiu kollubistoiu katastrefata kai tain kathedrain toiu pōlarōntoiu …… He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling …
Mark 11:15… te hiere, kai tain trapezain toiu kollubistoiu kai tain kathedrain toiu pōlarōntoiu tain …… He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling …
John 2:15… probateim kai toin bouoin, kai toiu kollubistoiu ekchata teim kermeim kai tain trapezain …… poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.