Jastrow: מוֹכֵס

מוֹכֵס m. (denom. of מֶכֶס) revenue farmer, publican, custom-collector (considered a robber in Jewish law). B. Kam. 113ᵃ מ׳ שאין לו קיצבה a publican who is not limited by legal stipulations; מ׳ העומד מאליו a self-constituted collector. Ab. Zar. 39ᵃ; Bekh. 30ᵇ bot. קשרי מ׳ the publican’s knots (seals or written receipts); a. e—Pl. מוֹכְסִין. B. Kam. X, 2 נטלו מ׳ וכ׳ if publicans took away his ass and gave him one taken from somebody else. Ib. 1; Tosef. ib. X, 22 תיבת מ׳ the treasury of the publicans. Ned. III, 4; Tosef. ib. II, 2, v. נָדַר. Sabb. VIII, 2 נייר … קשר מ׳ paper large enough to write on it a tax-receipt (v. supra). Shebu. 39ᵃ אין לך … כולה מ׳ there is no family in which there is a publican, whose members may not all be considered as publicans (in Jewish law); a. fr.