ἀγορά G0058
Marketplace, public square — the open civic space for commerce, socializing, legal proceedings, and daily gathering
The ἀγορά (agora) was the commercial and civic heart of ancient towns, functioning as marketplace, meeting place, and informal courtroom all at once. Jesus compares his generation to children sitting in the marketplace calling to one another (Matt 11:16; Luke 7:32), and he rebukes the scribes and Pharisees who love greetings in the marketplaces (Matt 23:7; Mark 12:38; Luke 11:43). In Mark 6:56, the sick are laid in the marketplaces hoping for healing. The Pharisees' ritual washing of things 'from the marketplace' (Mark 7:4) reflects purity concerns about contact with Gentiles and unclean persons in that public space. Spanish 'plaza' and French 'place du marché' capture the dual commercial-civic character.
Senses
1. marketplace, public square — The open public square in a Greco-Roman or Palestinian town serving as the center of commerce, socializing, and civic life. Jesus uses it as a setting for parables about childish fickleness (Matt 11:16; Luke 7:32), for exposing the Pharisees' love of public recognition (Matt 23:7; Mark 12:38; Luke 11:43, 20:46), and as a place where idle laborers wait for hire (Matt 20:3). The sick are brought to the agora for healing (Mark 6:56), and Pharisaic purity tradition requires washing after contact with the marketplace crowd (Mark 7:4). Spanish 'plaza' and German 'Marktplatz' both reflect this multipurpose civic space. 11×
AR["-الـ-سُّوقِ","أَسواقِ","الأَسواقِ","الأَسْواقِ","السّوقِ","سوقِ"]·ben["-সমাজগৃহে","বাজারে","বাজারের","হাটে"]·DE["Marktplatz","ἀγοραῖς","ἀγορᾶς"]·EN["marketplace","marketplaces"]·FR["place-du-marché"]·heb["הַשְּׁוָקִים","הַשּׁוּק","שְׁוָקִים","שׁוָקִים","שׁוּק","שׁוּקִים"]·HI["और","बअज़अरोन-मेइन","बज़अर","बाज़ार","बाज़ार-में","बाज़ारों"]·ID["pasar","pasar-pasar"]·IT["piazza"]·jav["pasar","pasar,","pasar-pasar","peken","peken,"]·KO["광장에서","시장","시장들","시장들에서","시장에서","시장으로","장터","장터들","장터들에","장터들에서"]·PT["mercado","praça","praças"]·RU["площади","площадь","площадях","рынка"]·ES["mercado","plaza","plazas"]·SW["masoko","na","soko","soko,","sokoni","wavivu"]·TR["meydanlara","pazardan","pazarlarda","çarşıda","çarşılarda","çarşıya"]·urd["بازار","بازاروں","پکارتے-ہیں"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἀγορά [ᾰγ], ᾶς, Ionic dialect ἀγορή, ῆς, ἡ, (ἀγείρω):— assembly, especially of the People, opposed to the Council of Chiefs, Refs 8th c.BC+; τοῖσιν δ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἀγοραὶ βουληφόροι (i.e. Κυκλώπεσσι) Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀ. Πυλάτιδες, of the Amphictyonic Council at Pylae, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀγορήνδε καλέσσασθαι, κηρύσσειν, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀγορὴν ποιήσασθαι, θέσθαι, Refs 8th c.BC+; εἰς ἀ. ἰέναι, ἀγέρεσθαι,Refs…