Sinonim untuk: Tax-collector.

 Lihat Definisi untuk telwnhv                  5057
 Lihat Definisi untuk arcitelwnhv               754

 The Roman system of collecting taxes, especially the teloi, in
 their provinces, included ordinarily three grades of officials. There
 was the highest, called in Latin publicanus, who paid a sum of
 money for the taxes of a certain province, and then exacted that and as
 much more as he could from the province. This man lived in Rome. Then
 there were the submagistri, who had charge each of a certain
 portion of territory, and who lived in the provinces. Then there were
 the portitores, the actual custom-house officers, who did the real
 work of collecting the taxes. The N.T. word telwnhv is used to
 describe one of the portitores; it is the lowest of these three
 grades. It does not correspond to the Latin publicanus, and the
 word publican used to translate it in A.V. and R.V. is apt to be
 misleading; tax-collector would be better.

 arcitelwnhv, only occurring in #Lu 19:2:, evidently describes a
 higher official than telwnhv, and is probably one of the
 submagistri, the next higher grade.