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Koine Greek wordlink #42547

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
Referred to from Word #42540 Referred to from Word #42566 Referred to from Word #42571 Referred to from Word #42573

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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

MAT 18:17 τελώνης (telōnaʸs) N-NMS ‘pagan and the tax_collector’ SR GNT Mat 18:17 word 23

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

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

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

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