ἀγορά
agorá · G58 · Greek · 11 occurrences
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Meanings
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market, marketplace, business center
A commercial center with a number of places for doing business
ExamplesMatthew 11:16 “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call out to the other children,
Matthew 20:3 “And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace;
Matthew 23:7 and personal greetings in the marketplaces, and being called Rabbi by the people.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
11 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐνin 13
- εἰςto 2
- ἀπόfrom 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- עִזָּבוֹן ʻizzâbôwn · H5801 · wares, merchandise
- עִזָּבוֹן (ʻizzâbôwn, H5801) עִזָּבוֹן denotes merchandise or wares as commercial goods, whereas ἀγορά (agorá, G58) ἀγορά denotes the marketplace or public square as the physical venue where such commerce occurs.
- שׁוּק shûwq · H7784 · street
- Hebrew שׁוּק denotes a street or marketplace, directly equivalent to Greek ἀγορά as a public commercial/civic space; both terms refer to the same urban architectural feature where commerce and public assembly occur.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Market, marketplace, business center57.207
- This noun denotes the public marketplace, as in Matthew 20:3's parable of a landowner seeing others standing idle in the marketplace.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root ἀγορά
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ᾶς, ἡ (ἀγείρω, perfect ἤγορα, to collect) (from Homer down); 1. any collection of men,…
1. any collection of men, congregation, assembly.
2. place where assemblies are held; in the N. T. the forum or public place, where trials are held, Acts 16:19; and the citizens resort, Acts 17:17; and commodities are exposed for sale, Mk 7:4 (ἀπ' ἀγορᾶς namely, ἐλθόντες on returning from the market if they hare not washed themselves they eat not; Winer's Grammar, § 66, 2 d. note); accordingly, the most frequented part of a city or village: Mt 11:16 (Lk 7:32); Mk 6:56; Mt 20:3; Mt 23:7; Mk 12:38; (Lk 11:43); Lk 20:46. (See B. D. American edition under the word .)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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