noun · neuter
telōniem
Strong’sG5058
a tax-collector's office
stem telōni-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books0 of 6 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.
*† τελώνιον, -ου, τό
(< τελώνης),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5058 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtel-o'-nee-on
a tax-gatherer's place of business
Fromneuter of a presumed derivative of G5057;
King Jamesreceipt of custom.
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
custom-house, NT+3rd c.BC+
II customs-duty, Refs 1st 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 or object direct | telōniem | telōnieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | telōnieu | telōnieiu |
| to, for dative | telōnie | telōniei |
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
telōnie 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
telōniem3×
Matthew 9:9… ekeithen horata anthrōpon kathorōnton epi tem telōniem, Mathaion legorōnton, kai legatō auto; Akolouthasōr …… man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and …
Mark 2:14… ton tou Halfaiou kathorōnton epi tem telōniem, kai legatō auto; Akolouthasōr mi. kai …… son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and …
Luke 5:27… telōnon onome Levion kathorōnton epi tem telōniem, kai legata auto; Akolouthasōr mi.… collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him,