# G5057 τελώνης

τελώνης (telṓnēs), Strong’s G5057: a tax-farmer, i.e. collector of public revenue KJV: publican. Occurs 21 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/G5057 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*telṓnēs* — a tax-farmer, i.e. collector of public revenue

KJV: publican

Built from [τέλος télos](https://besorah.bible/word/G5056) (the point aimed at as a limit) + [ὠνέομαι ōnéomai](https://besorah.bible/word/G5608) (to purchase)

Occurs 21 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 5:46](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/5?v=46) — For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
- [Matthew 9:10](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/9?v=10) — As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Yeshua and his disciples.
- [Matthew 9:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/9?v=11) — When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your rabbi eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
- [Matthew 10:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/10?v=3) — Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; Jacob the son of Halfai; Labbai, who was also called Taddai;
- [Matthew 11:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/11?v=19) — The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax…
- [Matthew 18:17](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/18?v=17) — 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…
- [Matthew 21:31](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/21?v=31) — Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Yeshua said to them, “Most certainly I…
- [Matthew 21:32](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/21?v=32) — For Yochanan came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him; but the tax collectors and the…
- [Mark 2:15](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/2?v=15) — He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Yeshua and his disciples…
- [Mark 2:16](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/2?v=16) — The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his…