Sheep Market
SHEEP MARKET
Joh 5:2 . The original might with at least equal propriety be rendered sheep gate; and a gate so called is mentioned in Neh 3:1- 32; 12:39. It was adjacent to the temple, and was so named from the number of sheep introduced through it for the temple service. Dr. Barclay thinks the “sheep market” was an enclosure for sheep and other animals designed for sacrifice, outside the temple area on the east.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Sheep Market
(Joh 5:2). The word market is an interpolation of our translators, possibly after Luther who has Schafhaus. The words of the original are , to which should probably be supplied not market, but gate (), as in the Sept. version of the passages in Nehemiah quoted in the foregoing article (q.v.). The Vulgate connects the with the and reads Probatica piscina; while the Syriac omits all mention of the sheep and names only a place of baptism.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Sheep-market
occurs only in John 5:2 (marg., also R.V., “sheep-gate”). The word so rendered is an adjective, and it is uncertain whether the noun to be supplied should be “gate” or, following the Vulgate Version, “pool.”
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Sheep Market
Joh 5:2; rather “sheep gate.”
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Sheep Market
(Joh 5:2, the Revised Version (British and American) sheep gate): The Greek ( , he probatike) means simply something that pertains to sheep. See BETHESDA; SHEEP GATE.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Sheep Market
This occurs only in Joh 5:2, and the word ‘market’ has been added. It was probably at the sheep gate (as in the margin ) mentioned in the O.T, but which cannot now be identified.