Strong G58ἀγορά
marketplace
- Transliteration
- agora
- Pronunciation
- ag-or-ah'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From ἀγείρωageiro (to gather; probably akin to G1453); properly the town square (as a place of public resort); by implication a market or thoroughfare: - market (-place) street.
Detailed definition
ἀγορά, -ας, ἡ (ἀγείρω, to bring together)
[in LXX for עִזָּבוֹן, שׁוּק;]
1. an assembly (Hom., Xen., al.).
2. a place of assembly, a public place or forum, a market-place (Hom., Thuc, al.; LXX): Mat.11:16 20:2 23:7, Mrk.6:56 (cf. MM, VGT, see word, ἀγυιά) 7:4 (Bl., §46, 7) 12:38, Luk.7:32 (Bl., l.with) 11:43 20:46, Act.16:19 17:7 (Cremer, 59; MM, VGT, see word).
† (AS)
[in LXX for עִזָּבוֹן, שׁוּק;]
1. an assembly (Hom., Xen., al.).
2. a place of assembly, a public place or forum, a market-place (Hom., Thuc, al.; LXX): Mat.11:16 20:2 23:7, Mrk.6:56 (cf. MM, VGT, see word, ἀγυιά) 7:4 (Bl., §46, 7) 12:38, Luk.7:32 (Bl., l.with) 11:43 20:46, Act.16:19 17:7 (Cremer, 59; MM, VGT, see word).
† (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G58 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- market6
- marketplace4
- street1
First verses
- Matthew 11:16But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
- Matthew 20:3And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
- Matthew 23:7And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
- Mark 6:56And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
- Mark 7:4And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
- Mark 12:38And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,
- Luke 7:32They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
- Luke 11:43Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
- Luke 20:46Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
- Acts 16:19And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
- Acts 17:17Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀγορά [ᾰγ], ᾶς,
Ionic dialect ἀγορή, ῆς, ἡ, (ἀγείρω):— assembly, especially of the People, opposed to the Council of Chiefs, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.93, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.69, etc.)]; τοῖσιν δ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἀγοραὶ βουληφόροι (i.e. Κυκλώπεσσι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.112; ὀρθῶν ἑσταότων ἀ γένετ᾽ οὐδέ τις ἔτλη ἕζεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.246)]; ἀ. Πυλάτιδες, of the Amphictyonic Council at Pylae, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 638, cf. Ion Eleg. 1.3; μακάρων ἀ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).29, compare “Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 210)]; ἀγορήνδε καλέσσασθαι, κηρύσσειν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.54, 2.51)]; ἀγορὴν ποιήσασθαι, θέσθαι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.489, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.171)]; εἰς ἀ. ἰέναι, ἀγέρεσθαι,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8.12, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.245; ἀγορήνδε καθέζεσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.372.)]—Not common in Prose, ἀγορὰν συνάγειν, συλλέγειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.7.3; ποιῆσαι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.27; ἀγορὰς ποιεῖσθαι 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Fragmenta” 150)]: of the assembly in Attic demes, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 44.36, “IG” 2.585, +others; ἀ. συνέδριον φυλετῶν καὶ δημοτῶν “Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 327: in late Prose, ἀ. δικῶν προθεῖναι, καταστήσασθαι)], = Latin conventus agere, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista)]“Bis Acc.” 4,12: meeting for games, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.14: _metaphorically_, μυρμήκων ἀ. 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Icar.” 19: proverbial, θεῶν ἀ. 'Babel', 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus, etc.)]
II place of assembly, τοὺς δ᾽ εὗρ᾽ εἰν ἀγορῇ[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.382; ἵνα σφ᾽ ἀ. τε θέμις τε 11.807, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.266; _plural_, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.16; οὔτε.. εἰς ἀ. ἔρχεται οὔτε δίκας 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 268.)]
II.2 market-place, perhaps not earlier than [Refs (“Hom.epigram” 14.5 πολλὰ μὲν εἰν ἀγορῇ πωλεύμενα, πολλὰ δ᾽ ἀγυιαῖς)]; frequently in later authors, πρυμνοῖς ἀγορᾶς ἔπι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.93; θεοὶ.. ἀγορᾶς ἐπίσκοποι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 272; μέση Τραχινίων ἀ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 424; ἀγορᾷ οὐδὲ ἄστει δέχεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.44; ὀλιγάκις.. ἀγορᾶς χραίνων κύκλον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 919)]; οἱ ἐκ τῆς ἀ. market people, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.18; ἐξ ἀγορᾶς εἶ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 181, etc.)]; εἰς ἀ. ἐμβάλλειν to go into the forum, i. e. be a citizen, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 5)]; ἐν τῇ ἀ. ἐργάζεσθαι to trade in the market, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.31)]; εἰς τὴν ἀ. χειροτονεῖν (opposed to ἐπὶ τὸν πόλεμον) 'for the market', [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] 4.26; the Roman “Forum”, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 5.48.)]
III business of the ἀγορά:
III.1 public speaking, gift of speaking, mostly in plural, ἔσχ᾽ ἀγοράων withheld him from speaking, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.275)]; οἱ δ᾽ ἀγορὰς ἀγόρευον[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 788, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.818; ᾠδὴν ἀντ᾽ ἀγορῆς θέμενος 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 1.)]
III.2 market, ἀγορὰν παρασκευάζειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.40, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.4.11; ἀ. παρέχειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.44, etc.; ἄγειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.7.33, etc.)]; opposed to ἀγορᾷ χρῆσθαι to have supplies,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 7.6.24; τῆς ἀ. εἴργεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.67, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 29)]; ἀ. ἐλευθέρα, i. e. καθαρὰ τῶν ὠνίων πάντων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1331a31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.3; opposed to ἀ. ἀναγκαία 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1331b11)]; generally, provisions, supplies, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (PPetr. 3p.131 (3rd c.BC), “PS” 14.354 (3rd c.BC), +others)]; in plural, Nic.Dam.p.6.17 [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]; ἀγορὰς περικόπτειν cut off supplies, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 10.43.)]
III.2.b market, sale, ἀ. τῶν βιβλίων, τῶν παρθένων, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 19, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 4.1, compare 4th c.BC: Nicochares Comicus 7.)]
IV as a mark of time, ἀ. πλήθουσα the forenoon, when the market-place was full, ἀγορῆς πληθυούσης[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.181; πληθούσης ἀγορᾶς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.10, compare “SIG” 695.38 (5th c.BC: Magnes Comicus Mae.))]; περὶ or ἀμφὶ ἀ. πλήθουσαν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.7, 1.8.1; ἐν ἀ. πληθούσῃ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 469d, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.92; also ἀγορῆς πληθώρη 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.173, 7.223; poetry, ἐν ἀ. πλήθοντος ὄχλου 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.85; πρὶν ἀ. πεπληθέναι 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 29: ἀγορῆς διάλυσις)] the time just after mid-day, when they went home from market, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.104, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 12.1.)]
V marketday, = Latin nundinae, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.58.)]
Ionic dialect ἀγορή, ῆς, ἡ, (ἀγείρω):— assembly, especially of the People, opposed to the Council of Chiefs, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.93, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.69, etc.)]; τοῖσιν δ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἀγοραὶ βουληφόροι (i.e. Κυκλώπεσσι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.112; ὀρθῶν ἑσταότων ἀ γένετ᾽ οὐδέ τις ἔτλη ἕζεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.246)]; ἀ. Πυλάτιδες, of the Amphictyonic Council at Pylae, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 638, cf. Ion Eleg. 1.3; μακάρων ἀ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).29, compare “Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 210)]; ἀγορήνδε καλέσσασθαι, κηρύσσειν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.54, 2.51)]; ἀγορὴν ποιήσασθαι, θέσθαι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.489, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.171)]; εἰς ἀ. ἰέναι, ἀγέρεσθαι,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8.12, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.245; ἀγορήνδε καθέζεσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.372.)]—Not common in Prose, ἀγορὰν συνάγειν, συλλέγειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.7.3; ποιῆσαι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.27; ἀγορὰς ποιεῖσθαι 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Fragmenta” 150)]: of the assembly in Attic demes, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 44.36, “IG” 2.585, +others; ἀ. συνέδριον φυλετῶν καὶ δημοτῶν “Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 327: in late Prose, ἀ. δικῶν προθεῖναι, καταστήσασθαι)], = Latin conventus agere, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista)]“Bis Acc.” 4,12: meeting for games, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.14: _metaphorically_, μυρμήκων ἀ. 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Icar.” 19: proverbial, θεῶν ἀ. 'Babel', 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus, etc.)]
II place of assembly, τοὺς δ᾽ εὗρ᾽ εἰν ἀγορῇ[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.382; ἵνα σφ᾽ ἀ. τε θέμις τε 11.807, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.266; _plural_, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.16; οὔτε.. εἰς ἀ. ἔρχεται οὔτε δίκας 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 268.)]
II.2 market-place, perhaps not earlier than [Refs (“Hom.epigram” 14.5 πολλὰ μὲν εἰν ἀγορῇ πωλεύμενα, πολλὰ δ᾽ ἀγυιαῖς)]; frequently in later authors, πρυμνοῖς ἀγορᾶς ἔπι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.93; θεοὶ.. ἀγορᾶς ἐπίσκοποι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 272; μέση Τραχινίων ἀ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 424; ἀγορᾷ οὐδὲ ἄστει δέχεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.44; ὀλιγάκις.. ἀγορᾶς χραίνων κύκλον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 919)]; οἱ ἐκ τῆς ἀ. market people, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.18; ἐξ ἀγορᾶς εἶ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 181, etc.)]; εἰς ἀ. ἐμβάλλειν to go into the forum, i. e. be a citizen, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 5)]; ἐν τῇ ἀ. ἐργάζεσθαι to trade in the market, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.31)]; εἰς τὴν ἀ. χειροτονεῖν (opposed to ἐπὶ τὸν πόλεμον) 'for the market', [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] 4.26; the Roman “Forum”, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 5.48.)]
III business of the ἀγορά:
III.1 public speaking, gift of speaking, mostly in plural, ἔσχ᾽ ἀγοράων withheld him from speaking, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.275)]; οἱ δ᾽ ἀγορὰς ἀγόρευον[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 788, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.818; ᾠδὴν ἀντ᾽ ἀγορῆς θέμενος 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 1.)]
III.2 market, ἀγορὰν παρασκευάζειν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.40, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.4.11; ἀ. παρέχειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.44, etc.; ἄγειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.7.33, etc.)]; opposed to ἀγορᾷ χρῆσθαι to have supplies,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 7.6.24; τῆς ἀ. εἴργεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.67, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 29)]; ἀ. ἐλευθέρα, i. e. καθαρὰ τῶν ὠνίων πάντων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1331a31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.3; opposed to ἀ. ἀναγκαία 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1331b11)]; generally, provisions, supplies, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (PPetr. 3p.131 (3rd c.BC), “PS” 14.354 (3rd c.BC), +others)]; in plural, Nic.Dam.p.6.17 [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]; ἀγορὰς περικόπτειν cut off supplies, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 10.43.)]
III.2.b market, sale, ἀ. τῶν βιβλίων, τῶν παρθένων, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 19, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 4.1, compare 4th c.BC: Nicochares Comicus 7.)]
IV as a mark of time, ἀ. πλήθουσα the forenoon, when the market-place was full, ἀγορῆς πληθυούσης[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.181; πληθούσης ἀγορᾶς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.10, compare “SIG” 695.38 (5th c.BC: Magnes Comicus Mae.))]; περὶ or ἀμφὶ ἀ. πλήθουσαν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.7, 1.8.1; ἐν ἀ. πληθούσῃ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 469d, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.92; also ἀγορῆς πληθώρη 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.173, 7.223; poetry, ἐν ἀ. πλήθοντος ὄχλου 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.85; πρὶν ἀ. πεπληθέναι 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 29: ἀγορῆς διάλυσις)] the time just after mid-day, when they went home from market, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.104, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 12.1.)]
V marketday, = Latin nundinae, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.58.)]