2855. kollubistes
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kollubistes: a money-changer
Original Word: κολλυβιστής, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: kollubistes
Phonetic Spelling: (kol-loo-bis-tace')
Short Definition: a money-changer
Definition: a money-changer, who changed heathen into Jewish money, for payment into the Temple treasury.

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2855 kollybistḗs – properly, a charge ("commission") given to someone making a transaction or exchange; in the NT a money-changer, converting "heathen currency" into "Jewish money" so worshipers could make payments into the Temple-treasury.

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 2855: κολλυβιστής

κολλυβιστής, κολλυβιστου, (from κόλλυβος equivalent to a. a small coin, cf. κολοβός clipped;

b. rate of exchange, premium), a money-changer, banker: Matthew 21:12; Mark 11:15; John 2:15. Menander, Lysias, in Pollux 7, 33, 170; μέν κόλλυβος δόκιμον, τό δέ κολλυβιστής ἀδόκιμον, Phryn. ed. Lob., p. 440. Cf. what was said under κερματιστής.



Strong's
moneychanger.

From a presumed derivative of kollubos (a small coin; probably akin to kollourion); a coin-dealer -- (money-)changer.

see GREEK kollourion

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