Dictionaries :: Custom (Toll)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Custom (Toll):

"an end, termination," whether of time or purpose, denotes, in its secondary significance, "what is paid for public ends, a toll, tax, custom," Mat 17:25 (RV, "toll"); Rom 13:7 (RV and AV, "custom"). In Palestine the Herods of Galilee and Peraea received the "custom;" in Judaea it was paid to the Procurator for the Roman Government.
See END, FINALLY, UTTERMOST.

Custom (Toll):

denotes "a custom-house," for the collection of the taxes, Mat 9:9; Mar 2:14; Luk 5:27 (RV, "place of toll").