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Koine Greek wordlink #42140

SR GNT Luke 5:27 τελώνην (telōnaʸn) ‘he came_out and saw a tax_collector with the name Leui/(Lēvī) sitting’ Strongs=50570 Lemma=telōnēs
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Jesus_Calls_Matthew Referred to from Word #42133 Referred to from Word #42155 Referred to from Word #42166

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Only use of identical word form τελώνην (N-AMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘τελώνην’ (N-AMS) is always and only glossed as ‘a tax_collector’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘telōnēs’ have 4 different glosses: ‘a tax_collector’, ‘of tax_collectors’, ‘tax_collector’, ‘tax_collectors’.

Greek words (5) other than τελώνην (N-AMS) with a gloss related to ‘tax_collector’

MAT 10:3 τελώνης (telōnaʸs) N-NMS ‘and Matthaios the tax_collector Yakōbos/(Yaˊₐqoⱱ) the son of Alfaios’ SR GNT Mat 10:3 word 8

OET-LV: 3 Filippos and Bartholomaios, Thōmas and Matthaios the tax _collector, Yakōbos the son of_ the _Alfaios and Thaddaios, (MAT_10:3)

OET-RV: 3 Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector, Yacob (nicknamed Thaddeus, son of Alfaeus), (MAT 10:3)

MAT 18:17 τελώνης (telōnaʸs) N-NMS ‘pagan and the tax_collector’ SR GNT Mat 18:17 word 22

OET-LV: 17 And if he _may _refuse _to _hear from _them, tell to _the assembly. And if he _may_ also _refuse _to _hear from _the assembly, him _let _be to _you as the pagan and the tax _collector. (MAT_18:17)

OET-RV: 17 Then if that person still refuses to listen, tell the whole assembly. If they still refuse to hear from the assembly, treat them like a non-believer or a tax-collector. (MAT 18:17)

LUKE 18:10 τελώνης (telōnaʸs) N-NMS ‘and the other was a tax_collector’ SR GNT Luke 18:10 word 16

OET-LV: 10 Two men went _up into the temple to _pray, the one was a_Farisaios_party _member, and the other was a_tax _collector. (LUK_18:10)

OET-RV: 10 “Once two men went into the temple to pray—one was a Pharisee party member and the other was a tax-collector. (LUK 18:10)

LUKE 18:11 τελώνης (telōnaʸs) N-NMS ‘even as this tax_collector’ SR GNT Luke 18:11 word 34

OET-LV: 11 The Farisaios_party _member having _been _stood was _praying these things to himself: - god, I _am _giving _thanks to _you that I _am not as the rest of _the people, swindling, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this the tax _collector. (LUK_18:11)

OET-RV: 11 The Pharisee stood there praying quietly, ‘I thank you, God, that I’m not like the rest of the people: swindlers, sinners, adulterers, and even that tax-collector. (LUK 18:11)

LUKE 18:13 τελώνης (telōnaʸs) N-NMS ‘the but tax_collector afar having stood not’ SR GNT Luke 18:13 word 4

OET-LV: 13 But the tax _collector having _stood afar, was_ not _willing not _even his eyes to _lift _up to the sky, but was _striking the chest of _him saying: - god, be _made _atonement for _me, the sinner. (LUK_18:13)

OET-RV: 13 But the tax-collector stood at a distance, not even willing to raise his head, instead beating his chest and saying, ‘God, I’m a sinner, take away my guilt.’ (LUK 18:13)

Key: N=noun AMS=accusative,masculine,singular NMS=nominative,masculine,singular