Market
MARKET
In Greek AGORA, in Latin FORUM, a large open area in many ancient cities, especially of Greece and Rome, having the public market on one side only, the other sides of the are being occupied by temples, theatres, colonnades, courts of justice, baths, and other public structures, the whole square often presenting a magnificent appearance.Here was the city exchange, the focus to which converged all the lines of public life. Hither laborers resorted in search of employment, Mat 20:3-7, and children to pursue their sports, Luk 7:32 . Here the ordinary assemblies of the people were held; here philosophers and statesmen met and debated; here laws were promulgated and news announced; hither men resorted for pleasure as well as for business.The most notable public men, and indeed all classes of citizens, here congregated; and what was done here was done before the whole city. Hence the proud Pharisees desired “greeting in the market places,” Mat 12:38 ; and Paul resorted to the agora at Athens to meet and convince the philosophers, Mal 17:17 ; and the masters of the damsel at Philippi exorcised by Paul and Silas, “drew them into the market place unto the rulers,” Mal 16:19 .
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Market
(, maarab’), a mercantile term, found only in Ezekiel 27 (rendered merchandise, except in Eze 27:13; Eze 27:17; Eze 27:19; Eze 27:25), in several senses:
(a) properly barter, and so trade, traffic (Eze 27:9; Eze 27:27);
(b) place of barter, zmart (Eze 27:12-13; Eze 27:17; Eze 27:19);
(c) gain, wealth, acquired by traffic (Eze 27:27; Eze 27:34; plur. Eze 27:33, perh. precious wares), like , merchandise, and , fair, ware. In the N. Test. the word agora (), thus rendered (market-place in Mat 20:3; Mar 12:38; Luk 7:32; Act 16:19), denotes generally any place of public resort in towns and cities where the people came together; and hence more specially it signifies
(a) a public place, a broad street, etc. (Mat 11:16; Mat 20:3; Mat 23:7; Mar 6:56; Mar 12:38; Luk 7:32; Luk 11:43; Luk 20:46);
(b) ajo ruin or market-place, where goods were exposed for sale, and assemblies or public trials held (Act 16:19; Act 17:17). In Mar 7:4 it is doubtful whether denotes the market itself, or is put for that which is brought from the market; but the known customs of the Jews suggest a preference of the former signification. From this is derived the term agorceus (), properly signifying the things belonging to, or persons frequenting the agora; improperly rendered in law in Act 19:38, where it is applied to the days on which public trials were held in the forum; and in Act 17:5 (where it is rendered baser sort) it denotes idlers, or persons lounging about in the markets and other places of public resort. There is a peculiar force in this application of the word, when we recollect that the market-places or bazaars of the East were, and are at this day, the constant resort of unoccupied people, the idle, and the newsmongers.
In very early periods markets were held at or near the gates of cities, sometimes within and sometimes without the walls. Here commodities were exposed for sale, either in the open air or in tents (2Ki 7:18). It is still not unusual in the East for the wholesale market for country produce and cattle to be held (for a short time in the early part of the morning) at the gates of towns; but manufactured goods and various sorts of fruits are retailed in the bazaars within the towns. In the time of our Savior, as we learn from Josephus, the markets were enclosed in the same manner as the modern Eastern bazaars, which are shut at night, and contain traders’ shops disposed in rows or streets; and in large towns the dealers in particular commodities are confined to certain streets. That this was also the case in the time of the prophet Jeremiah, we may infer from his expression, the bakers’ street (Jer 37:21). That a close connection existed between those of the same craft, we learn incidentally from Neh 3:32. In rebuilding Jerusalem after the exile, the goldsmiths and the merchants acted together in repairing the walls. Josephus calls the valley between Mounts Zion and Moriah the Tyropoeon (), i.e. the valley of the cheesemakers. In like manner there is mentioned the valley of Charashim, or the craftsmen (1Ch 4:14; Neh 11:35). Josephus also mentions a street of the meat- dealers. The streets of Eastern cities are generally distinguished from each other, not by the separate names which they bear, but by the sort of traffic or business carried on in them. Thus at Cairo and other large Oriental cities we hear of the market of the butchers, of the fruit-dealers, the copper-ware sellers, the jewelers, and so on; each consisting of a row of shops on each side of the street devoted to that particular kind of trade (Hackett, Illustra. of Script, p. 61). SEE BARGAIN; SEE BAZAAR; SEE COMMERCE; SEE MERCHANT.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Market
The bazaars of the East are the resort of the idle and news-mongers. Hence, agoraioi,” market frequenters,” is another name for “fellows of the baser sort” (Act 17:5 Greek).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Market
A place for general merchandise.
Held at gates
Gates
Judgment seat at
Act 16:19
Traffic of, in Tyre
Eze 27:13-25 Gates
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Market
Market, or Market Place. In the Old Testament this word occurs only once. Eze 27:13, A. V.; in the New Testament oftener, Mat 23:7; Mar 12:38; Luk 11:43; Luk 20:46; Act 16:19, etc., and we learn from Mat 20:3 that not only were all kinds of produce offered for sale here, but hither resorted also the laborers to find employment. It was frequented by business men and by crowds of idlers and loungers. In a strictly Oriental city, such as Jerusalem, the market had not, like the forum, this character of being the centre of all public life. Still it was always a lively place, generally situated just within the gate, and the principal scene of trade and traffic.