Moneychanger
κολλυβιστήςStrong’s G2855kollubistēs
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Kollubistēs is the Greek word usually translated “money changers”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,”
Meaning
Usually translated “money changers”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- money changers 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 1
- Mark 1
- John 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Mark 11:15And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
- John 2:15And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;
Greek dictionary
κολλυβιστής kollubistēs · moneychanger
κολλυβιστής, -οῦ, ὁ (κόλλυβος, a small coin, a rate of exchange), a money-changer: Mat.21:12, Mrk.11:15, Jhn.2:15 (of. κερματιοτής).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “moneychanger” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MONEY-CHANGER, noun
A broker who deals in money or exchanges.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.