- Transliteration: Telones

- Phonetic: tel-o'-nace

- Definition:

1. a renter or farmer of taxes

a. among the Romans, usually a man of equestrian rank

2. a tax gatherer, collector of taxes or tolls, one employed by a publican or farmer general in the collection of taxes. The tax collectors were as a class, detested not only by the Jews, but by other nations also, both on account of their employment and of the harshness, greed, and deception, with which they did their job.

- Origin: from G5056" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5056 and G5608" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5608

- TDNT entry: 09:28,1

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

- Strong's: From G5056" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5056 and G5608" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5608; a tax farmer that is collector of public revenue: - publican.