{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "G5057",
  "lemma": "τελώνης",
  "transliteration": "telṓnēs",
  "definition": "a tax-farmer, i.e. collector of public revenue",
  "kjv": "publican",
  "occurrences": 21,
  "language": "Greek",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "G5056",
      "lemma": "τέλος",
      "transliteration": "télos",
      "meaning": "the point aimed at as a limit",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G5056"
    },
    {
      "id": "G5608",
      "lemma": "ὠνέομαι",
      "transliteration": "ōnéomai",
      "meaning": "to purchase",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G5608"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 5:46",
      "text": "For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/5?v=46"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 9:10",
      "text": "As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Yeshua and his disciples.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/9?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 9:11",
      "text": "When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your rabbi eat with tax collectors and sinners?”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/9?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 10:3",
      "text": "Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; Jacob the son of Halfai; Labbai, who was also called Taddai;",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/10?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 11:19",
      "text": "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/11?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 18:17",
      "text": "If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/18?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 21:31",
      "text": "Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Yeshua said to them, “Most certainly I…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/21?v=31"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 21:32",
      "text": "For Yochanan came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him; but the tax collectors and the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/21?v=32"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Mark 2:15",
      "text": "He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Yeshua and his disciples…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/2?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Mark 2:16",
      "text": "The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/2?v=16"
    }
  ],
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  "credit": "Besorah (https://besorah.bible). Texts and word data are open; terms and licences:",
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}