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Of the marketplace

ἀγοραῖοςStrong’s G0060

agoraios

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Agoraios is the Greek word usually translated “market-loungers” and “courts”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.”
Acts 17:5 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “market-loungers” and “courts”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • market-loungers 1
  • courts 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Acts 2

1 book in all.

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Greek dictionary

ἀγοραῖος agoraios · of the marketplace

ἀγοραῖος, -ον (ἀγορά), 1. frequenting the ἀγορά , a lounger in the ἀγορά (Xen., al.): Act.17:5. 2. In late writers (Strab., al.), proper to the ἀγορά : ἀγοραῖοι (sc. ἥμεραι) ἀγονται (cf. Lat. conventus agere), court-days are kept, Act.19:38 (for exx. of both usages, see MM, VGT, see word). † (AS)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

COURT, noun

  1. A place in front of a house, inclosed by a wall or fence; in popular language, a court-yard.
  2. A space inclosed by houses, broader than a street; or a space forming a kind of recess from a public street.
  3. A palace; the place of residence of a king or sovereign prince.
  4. The hall, chamber or place where justice is administered.
All definitions and other forms of “court”
  1. Persons who compose the retinue or council of a king or emperor.
  2. The persons or judges assembled for hearing and deciding causes, civil, criminal, military, naval or ecclesiastical; as a court of law; a court of chancery; a court martial; a court of admiralty; an ecclesiastical court; court baron; etc.
  3. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
  4. The art of pleasing; the art of insinuation; civility; flattery; address to gain favor.
  5. In scripture, an inclosed part of the entrance into a palace or house.
  6. In the United States, a legislature consisting of two houses; as the General court of Massachusetts.
  7. A session of the legislature.

COURT, verb transitive

  1. In a general sense, to flatter; to endeavor to please by civilities and address; a use of the word derived from the manners of a court
  2. To woo; to solicit for marriage.
  3. To attempt to gain by address; to solicit; to seek; as, to court commendation or applause.

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

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.