Marketplace

Usually translated “marketplaces”, “marketplace” and “markets”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• marketplaces 5
• marketplace 3
• markets 1
• market 1
• the marketplace 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Matthew 3
• Mark 3
• Luke 3
• Acts 2

4 books in all.

• Of the marketplace (agoraios)
• Marketplace/trade (emporion)

• 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.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “marketplace” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.