Lexicon agora: an assembly, place of assembly Original Word: ἀγορά, ᾶς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: agora Phonetic Spelling: (ag-or-ah') Short Definition: market-place Definition: market-place, forum, public place of assembly. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ageiró (to bring together) Definitionan assembly, place of assembly NASB Translationmarket place (5), market places (6).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 58: ἀγοράἀγορά, (ᾶς, ἡ ( ἀγείρω, perfect ἤγορα, to collect) (from Homer down); 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, Mark 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: Matthew 11:16 (Luke 7:32); Mark 6:56; Matthew 20:3; Matthew 23:7; Mark 12:38; (Luke 11:43); Luke 20:46. (See B. D. American edition under the word .)
Strong's marketplace, street. From ageiro (to gather; probably akin to egeiro); properly, the town-square (as a place of public resort); by implication, a market or thoroughfare -- market(-place), street. see GREEK egeiro |
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