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Greek noun (masculine) · G2855

κολλυβιστής

kollybisteskol-loo-bis-tace'

moneychanger

3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: kollybistḗs

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2855is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G2855

a coin-dealer

The King James renders it: (money-)changer.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

kollybistes is rendered "moneychanger". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.

  • One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 21:12Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

The first use

Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

Matthew 21:12κολλυβιστῶν

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's three uses is in Matthew.

The other 24 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • money changers3

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

κολλάωkollaoto joinUses12
κολλούριονkollourioneye salveUses1

All 3, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • κολλυβιστῶν3

The grammar of each form

  • noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural3N-GPM

Matthew

one use
  • Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

    Matthew 21:12

    • κολλυβιστῶνkollubistonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: money changers

Mark

one use
  • When they arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

    Mark 11:15

    • κολλυβιστῶνkollubistonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: money changers

John

one use
  • So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

    John 2:15

    • κολλυβιστῶνkollubistonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: money changers

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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