Quick Definition
a tax-collector?s office
Strong's Definition
a tax-gatherer's place of business
Derivation: neuter of a presumed derivative of G5057 (τελώνης);
KJV Usage: receipt of custom
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τελώνιον, τελωνιου, τό (τελώνης, cf. δεκατωνιον);
1. customs, toll: Strabo 16, 1, 27.
2. toll-house, place of toll, tax-office: the place in which the tax-collector sat to collect the taxes (Wycliffe, tolbothe): Mat_9:9; Mar_2:14; Luk_5:27.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τελώνιον telōnion 3x
a custom-house, toll house; collector s office, Mat_9:9 ; Mar_2:14 ; Luk_5:27
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† τελώνιον , -ου , τό
( <τελώνης ),
a custom house (so in MGr .), tollhouse, place of toll: Mat_9:9 , Mar_2:14 , Luk_5:27 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τελώνιον [page 631]
revenue office, custom-house ( Mat_9:9 al .) : cf. P Par 62 viii. 3 ( c . B.C. 170) (as revised P Rev L p.181) τὰς ἐκθέσε [ις ἐν τοῖς ] τελωνίοις , and OGIS 496 .9 (A.D. 138 161) τοῖς ἐπὶ τὸ τελώνιον τῆς ἰχθυϊκῆς πραγματευομένοις . In P Petr II. 11(2) .3 (mid. iii/B.C.) (= Witkowski .2 , p. 6) ἀπογέγραμμαι δὲ ἐπὶ τελώνιον τὸ οἰκόπεδον , ἐπὶ τελώνιον does not refer to a place, but = for the purpose of taxation. MGr τελωνεῖον .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
τελώνιον τελώνιον, ου, τό, [Etym: τελώνης] "a custom-house", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
τελώνιον, -ου, τό
(τελώνης),
a custom house (so in MGr.), tollhouse, place of toll: Mat.9:9, Mrk.2:14, Luk.5:27.†
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